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Refine doc on show loopback/mgmt interfaces #1958

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* [Introduction](#introduction)
* [Basic Tasks](#basic-tasks)
* [SSH Login](#ssh-login)
* [Show Management Interface](#show-management-interface)
* [Configuring Management Interface](#configuring-management-interface)
* [Getting Help](#getting-help)
* [Help for Config Commands](#help-for-config-commands)
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* [Loading Management Configuration](#loading-management-configuration)
* [Saving Configuration to a File for Persistence](saving-configuration-to-a-file-for-persistence)
* [Loopback Interfaces](#loopback-interfaces)
* [Loopback show commands](#loopback-show-commands)
* [Loopback config commands](#loopback-config-commands)
* [VRF Configuration](#vrf-configuration)
* [VRF show commands](#vrf-show-commands)
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Go Back To [Beginning of the document](#) or [Beginning of this section](#basic-tasks)

### Show Management Interface

Please check [show ip interfaces](#show-ip-interfaces)
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Does this mean there is no specific command only to show management and loopback interfaces? When these interfaces need to be shown, just call show ip interfaces and find the ones of interest?

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Yes. Do you have any concern?

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Nope, just to clarify


### Configuring Management Interface

The management interface (eth0) in SONiC is configured (by default) to use DHCP client to get the IP address from the DHCP server. Connect the management interface to the same network in which your DHCP server is connected and get the IP address from DHCP server.
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4) prefix-list
5) protocol

**show ip route**
#### show ip route

This command displays either all the route entries from the routing table or a specific route.

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* directly connected, Loopback11
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**show ip interfaces**
#### show ip interfaces

This command displays the details about all the Layer3 IP interfaces in the device for which IP address has been assigned.
The type of interfaces include the following.
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lo 127.0.0.1/8 up/up N/A N/A
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**show ip protocol**
#### show ip protocol

This command displays the route-map that is configured for the routing protocol.
Refer the routing stack [Quagga Command Reference](https://www.quagga.net/docs/quagga.pdf) or [FRR Command Reference](https://buildmedia.readthedocs.org/media/pdf/frrouting/latest/frrouting.pdf) to know more about this command.
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## Loopback Interfaces

### Loopback Config commands
### Loopback show commands

Please check [show ip interfaces](#show-ip-interfaces)

### Loopback config commands

This sub-section explains how to create and delete loopback interfaces.

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