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ROUTER CONFIGURATION PARTITIONING

If you have to troubleshoot routers with long configurations, you're probably as fed up with the slow response of the  show running-config  command as I am. Unfortunately, there's not much you can do; the running configuration is reverse-engineered from various memory variables every time you ask for it and that process simply takes time if you've configured many parameters. IOS release 12.2(33)SRB has introduced a fantastic feature:  router configuration partitioning . The early seeds of this idea are already present in mainstream IOS releases. For example, you can  display the configuration of a single interface , all class-maps or all policy-maps. The configuration partitioning gives you the ability to display access-lists, route-maps, static routes, router configurations ... PE-A# show running-config partition ?   access-list All access-list configurations   class-map All class-map configurations   common All remaining unregistered configura