Specifications

IP Switching Commands
show cef
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Cisco IOS IP Switching Command Reference
May 2008
show cef
To display information about packets forwarded by Cisco Express Forwarding, use the show cef
command in privileged EXEC mode.
show cef {accounting | background | broker broker-name [detail] | fib | hardware-vectors | idb |
linecard [linecard-number] [detail | internal] | loadinfo | memory [summary |
chunk-utilisation] | non-ip | nsf | path [list] | table [consistency-check | detail | internal]}
Syntax Description
Command Modes Privileged EXEC
Command History
accounting Displays Cisco Express Forwarding accounting state.
background Displays Cisco Express Forwarding background processing.
broker broker-name [detail] (Distributed platforms only) Displays Cisco Express Forwarding
information related to update brokers.
fib Displays Cisco Express Forwarding Forwarding Information
Base (FIB) entries.
hardware-vectors Displays the hardware application programming interface (API)
vector function table.
idb Displays Cisco Express Forwarding interface descriptor blocks.
linecard [linecard-number]
[detail | internal]
(Distributed platforms only) Displays Cisco Express Forwarding
information for line cards. The linecard-number argument
specifies the line card slot number.
loadinfo Displays Cisco Express Forwarding loadinfo events.
memory [summary |
chunk-utilisation]
Displays Cisco Express Forwarding memory usage.
non-ip Displays Cisco Express Forwarding paths for non-IP traffic.
nsf (Distributed platforms only) Displays Cisco Express Forwarding
nonstop forwarding (NSF) statistics.
path [list] Displays Cisco Express Forwarding paths.
table [consistency-check | detail
| internal]
Displays the Cisco Express Forwarding table.
Release Modification
11.2GS This command was introduced to support the Cisco 12012 Internet router.
11.1CC support was added for multiple platforms.
12.0(22)S The display output for this command was modified to include support for
Cisco Express Forwarding for IPv6 and distributed Cisco Express Forwarding for
IPv6 packets.
12.2(13)T This command was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(13)T.
12.2(14)S This command was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(14)S.