Cisco Networking: Show Version Command on a Router

Issuing the show version command on a Cisco network router displays hardware unique information. Review the output of the show version command on a router and try to locate the following information. The output gives you insight into the router’s capabilities, and overall gives you practice reading the output of many Cisco commands:

• IOS version

• System uptime

• Image filename

• Type of processor

• Amount of RAM

• Number of ports on the switch

• Amount of flash memory

• Current configuration register

Here is what the show version command displays for one of my routers:

Router1#show version
Cisco IOS Software, C2600 Software (C2600-ADVIPSERVICESK9-M), Version 12.3(4)T4,  RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Thu 11-Mar-04 19:57 by eaarmas
ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(8r) [cmong 8r], RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Router1 uptime is 20 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System image file is "flash:c2600-advipservicesk9-mz.123-4.T4.bin"
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Cisco 2621XM (MPC860P) processor (revision 0x300) with 125952K/5120K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID JAE081160XR (3618058385)
M860 processor: part number 5, mask 2
2 FastEthernet interfaces
1 Virtual Private Network (VPN) Module
32K bytes of NVRAM.
32768K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)
Configuration register is 0x2102

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