Specifications

IP Switching Commands
clear cef table
ISW-14
Cisco IOS IP Switching Command Reference
May 2008
Examples The following example clears the Cisco Express Forwarding tables for the IPv6 address family:
Router# clear cef table ipv6 vrf *
The following example clears the Cisco Express Forwarding tables for a VRF table named blue in the
IPv4 address family:
Router# clear cef table ipv4 vrf blue
The following example clears the Cisco Express Forwarding tables for all VRF tables in the IPv4 address
family. This example shows output with Cisco Express Forwarding table debugging enabled:
Router# clear cef table ipv4 vrf *
06:56:01: FIBtable: Refreshing table IPv4:Default
06:56:01: FIBtable: Invalidated 10.0.0.0/24 in IPv4:Default
06:56:01: FIBtable: Deleted 10.0.0.0/24 from IPv4:Default
06:56:01: FIBtable: Validated 10.0.0.0/24 in IPv4:Default
06:56:01: FIBtable: IPv4: Event up, 10.9.41.0/24, vrf Default, 1 path, flags 0100
0220
06:56:01: FIBtable: IPv4: Adding route for 10.9.41.0/24 but route already exists.
Trying modify.
06:56:01: FIBtable: IPv4: Event up, 10.0.0.11/32, vrf Default, 1 path, flags 010
00000
06:56:01: FIBtable: IPv4: Adding route for 10.0.0.11/32 but route already exists
. Trying modify.
06:56:01: FIBtable: IPv4: Event up, 10.0.0.15/32, vrf Default, 1 path, flags 010
00000
06:56:01: FIBtable: IPv4: Adding route for 10.0.0.15/32 but route already exists
. Trying modify.
06:56:01: FIBtable: IPv4: Event up, 10.0.0.7/32, vrf Default, 1 path, flags 0100
0220
06:56:01: FIBtable: IPv4: Adding route for 10.0.0.7/32 but route already exists.
Trying modify.
06:56:01: FIBtable: IPv4: Event up, 10.0.0.0/8, vrf Default, 1 path, flags 00000
220
06:56:01: FIBtable: IPv4: Adding route for 10.0.0.0/8 but route already exists.
Trying modify.
06:56:01: FIBtable: IPv4: Event up, 0.0.0.0/0, vrf Default, 1 path, flags 004200
05
06:56:01: FIBtable: IPv4: Adding route for 0.0.0.0/0 but route already exists. T
rying modify.
06:56:01: FIBtable: Starting purge of table IPv4:Default to epoch 13
06:56:01: FIBtable: Invalidated 10.1.41.1/32 in IPv4:Default
06:56:01: FIBtable: Deleted 10.1.41.1/32 from IPv4:Default
06:56:01: FIBtable: Purged 1 prefix from table IPv4:Default
06:56:01: FIBtable: Validated 10.1.41.1/32 in IPv4:Default
06:56:06: FIBtable: IPv4: Event modified, 0.0.0.0/0, vrf Default, 1 path, flags
00420005
06:56:06: FIBtable: IPv4: Event up, default, 0.0.0.0/0, vrf Default, 1 path, fla
gs 00420005
06:56:06: FIBtable: IPv4: Adding route for 0.0.0.0/0 but route already exists. T
rying modify.
Related Commands Command Description
cef table consistency-check Clears the Cisco Express Forwarding tables.
clear ip cef inconsistency Clears Cisco Express Forwarding inconsistency statistics and
records found by the Cisco Express Forwarding consistency
checkers.