Project DOTU

What about the undocumented stuff that people tell you about? Where can you get more information on that? For this, there is a Project DOTU: Document the Undocumented at www.boerland.com/dotu (see Figure 2-7). Project DOTU is a viable option; however, I am not by any means suggesting that you try all the undocumented commands in a production network. Take a look at the Boerland site and also go to Yahoo! or Google sometime to search for “cisco undocumented.”

Figure 2-7. Project DOTU

As an example, go to one of your routers and try sh int switching to see switching on an interface-by-interface, protocol-by-protocol ...

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