Junos for IOS Users

The Junos OS command line interface (CLI) has many built-in tools to guide you while
you master its commands and structure. If you already know a command language for
another network operating system, such as Cisco's IOS, you can anticipate many of the
Junos OS commands. Junos and IOS have two fundamental differences:

Junos OS organizes commands in a structured hierarchy as opposed to a flat

file, showing the configuration and commands of each level within its own set of curly
braces {}.

Junos OS stores changes into a candidate configuration instead of immediately

affecting your active configuration file. You don't affect the active configuration until
you commit the changes.
Because Junos doesn't use the ip keyword in the commands, many of
the show commands you already know work if you simply drop the keyword. For
example, showiproute becomes showroute.

Basic CLI and Systems Management Commands

Junos Command

IOS Command

set date

clock set

ping

ping

request system reboot

reload

request message

send

show system uptime

show clock

show chassis environment

show environment

show cli history

show history

show system statistics

show ip traffic

show logshow log file name

show logging

show system processes

show processes

show configuration

show running config

request support information

show tech-support

show system users

show users

show version show chassis hardware

show version

traceroute

trace

Switching Commands
Junos Command

IOS Command

show ethernet-switching interfaces

No equivalent command

show spanning-tree bridge

show spanning-tree

show ethernet-switching table

show mac address-table

show log messages

show logging

Interface Commands
Junos Command

IOS Command

clear interface statistics

clear counters

show interfaces
show interfaces detail
show interfaces extensive

show interfaces

show interfaces
show interfaces detail
show interfaces extensive

show ip interface

show interfaces terse

show ip interface brief

Routing Protocol Commands

Junos Command

IOS Command

clear arp

clear arp-cache

show arp

show arp

show route

show ip route

show route summary

show ip route summary

show policy
show policy policy-name

show route-map

show system connections

show tcp

show ospf database

show ip ospf database

show ospf interface

show ip ospf interface

show ospf neighbor

show ip ospf neighbor

clear bgp neighbor

clear ip bgp

clear bgp damping

clear ip bgp dampening

show route protocol bgp

show ip bgp

show route community

show ip bgp community

show route damping decayed

show ip bgp dampened paths

show bgp neighbor

show ip bgp neighbors

show route advertising-protocol bgpneighboraddress

show ip bgp neighbors addressadvertisedroutes

show route receive-protocol bgpneighboraddress

show ip bgp neighbors addressreceivedroutes

show bgp group

show ip bgp peer-group

show route aspath-regex

show ip bgp regexp

show bgp summary

show ip bgp summary