Verifying Your Configurations

It's important to verify your configurations once you've completed them, or at least once you think you've completed them. The following list includes the commands you can use to verify the routed and routing protocols configured on your Cisco routers:

  • show ip route
  • show ip protocols
  • debug ip rip

The first command was covered in the previous section—I'll go over the others in the sections that follow.

The show ip protocols Command

The show ip protocols command shows you the routing protocols that are configured on your router. Looking at the following output, you can see that RIP is running on the router and the timers that RIP uses:

Corp#sh ip protocols Routing Protocol is “rip” Sending updates every 30 seconds, ...

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