Does every platform have a command for every task?

No, and the table says so instead of guessing. Some tasks have no in-box equivalent — IOS-XR cannot mirror a port, classic IOS has no packet capture — and each of those cells carries the reason.

Which command shows the MAC address table on Junos?

Junos switches use show ethernet-switching table. MX and SRX platforms do not maintain one at all, because they are routers rather than L2 switches.

Why does the save command differ so much between vendors?

IOS and EOS write memory, NX-OS and IOS-XE copy the running configuration to the startup configuration, VRP saves, Comware saves force, and IOS-XR and Junos treat commit as the save because both are candidate-configuration systems.

What does "needs validation" mean on a row?

It means the command was community-reported rather than read out of first-party documentation. Those rows are labelled so you can check them against your release before pasting them into a change window.

Why is Huawei spelled "VRP" and not "Huawei"?

VRP (Versatile Routing Platform) is the network operating system; Huawei is the vendor. H3C, the other half of the original Huawei-3Com venture, ships Comware instead — which is why both appear as separate columns.

Vendor CLI Cross-Reference

Community-reported — verify on your own hardware

Twenty operational tasks — BGP summary, MAC table, LLDP, port mirroring, packet capture, save and diff — with the command for IOS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NX-OS, EOS, VRP, Comware and Junos side by side.

Task

20 operational tasks

Filter tasks and commands

Matches the task name, the description, the commands themselves and the notes — “tracert”, “span”, “soft-reconfiguration”.

Export

The selected task, or the whole matrix as text

160 rows across 20 tasks. “All commands” writes a plain-text cheat sheet where a missing command is written as a comment with its reason.

Read the gaps, not just the cells

A missing row here is information, not an oversight. Where a platform genuinely has no in-box answer — IOS-XR has no port mirroring, classic IOS has no packet capture — the cell carries the reason and the workaround. Where we are not confident enough in a vendor's syntax, the row says so rather than printing a guess you might paste into a change window.

Show BGP summary

Per-neighbour state, uptime, prefixes received and the router ID of each peer.

Platforms answered: 8 / 8
No in-box answer: 0
Not recorded: 0

Commands

One row per platform, including the ones with no answer

Platform	Command	Notes	Confidence
Cisco IOS	show ip bgp summary	No quirks recorded — the command behaves the way the name suggests.	documented
Cisco IOS-XE	show ip bgp summary	Address-family form: show bgp vrf <name> ipv4 unicast summary	documented
Cisco IOS-XR	show bgp summary	IOS-XR drops the ip keyword in front of every address family.	documented
Cisco NX-OS	show ip bgp summary	No quirks recorded — the command behaves the way the name suggests.	documented
Arista EOS	show ip bgp summary	No quirks recorded — the command behaves the way the name suggests.	documented
Huawei VRP	display bgp peer	No quirks recorded — the command behaves the way the name suggests.	documented
H3C Comware	display bgp peer	Newer Comware releases also accept display bgp peer ipv4.	documented
Juniper Junos	show bgp summary	No quirks recorded — the command behaves the way the name suggests.	documented

Whole matrix

160 command rows across 20 tasks

Every task and platform, including the cells with no answer, so the export carries the gaps as well as the commands.

Frequently asked

Does every platform have a command for every task?: No, and the table says so instead of guessing. Some tasks have no in-box equivalent — IOS-XR cannot mirror a port, classic IOS has no packet capture — and each of those cells carries the reason.
Which command shows the MAC address table on Junos?: Junos switches use show ethernet-switching table. MX and SRX platforms do not maintain one at all, because they are routers rather than L2 switches.
Why does the save command differ so much between vendors?: IOS and EOS write memory, NX-OS and IOS-XE copy the running configuration to the startup configuration, VRP saves, Comware saves force, and IOS-XR and Junos treat commit as the save because both are candidate-configuration systems.
What does "needs validation" mean on a row?: It means the command was community-reported rather than read out of first-party documentation. Those rows are labelled so you can check them against your release before pasting them into a change window.
Why is Huawei spelled "VRP" and not "Huawei"?: VRP (Versatile Routing Platform) is the network operating system; Huawei is the vendor. H3C, the other half of the original Huawei-3Com venture, ships Comware instead — which is why both appear as separate columns.

Verify before you deploy

Vendor-specific details here are community-reported rather than confirmed on hardware. Check them against your own platform before pushing configuration.

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