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 ...