Cisco Router Configuration Commands

Requirement Cisco Command

Set a console password Router(config)#line con 0

to cisco Router(config-line)#login
Router(config-line)#password
cisco

Set a telnet password Router(config)#line vty 0 4

Router(config-line)#login
Router(config-line)#password
cisco

Stop console timing out Router(config)#line con 0

Router(config-line)#exec-
timeout 0 0

Set the enable password Router(config)#enable

to cisco password cisco

Set the enable secret

password to peter. Router(config)#enable secret
peter
This password
overrides the enable
password and is
encypted within the
config file

Enable an interface Router(config-if)#no

shutdown

To disable an interface Router(config-if)#shutdown

Set the clock rate for a Router(config-if)clock rate
router with a DCE cable 64000
to 64K

Set a logical bandwidth Router(config-if)bandwidth 64

assignment of 64K to
the serial interface Note that the zeroes are not
missing

To add an IP address to Router(config-if)#ip addr

a interface 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0

To enable RIP on all Router(config)#router rip

172.16.x.y interfaces Router(config-router)#network
172.16.0.0

Disable RIP Router(config)#no router rip

To enable IRGP with a Router(config)#router igrp

AS of 200, to all 200
interfaces Router(config-router)#network
172.16.0.0

Disable IGRP Router(config)#no router igrp

200

Static route the remote Router(config)#ip route

network is 172.16.1.0, 172.16.1.0 255.255.255.0
with a mask of 172.16.2.1 5
255.255.255.0, the next
hop is 172.16.2.1, at a
cost of 5 hops
Disable CDP for the Router(config)#no cdp run
whole router

Enable CDP for he Router(config)#cdp run

whole router

Disable CDP on an Router(config-if)#no cdp

interface enable

Cisco Router Show Commands

Requirement Cisco Command

View version information show version

View current configuration show running-config

(DRAM)

View startup configuration show startup-config

(NVRAM)

Show IOS file and flash show flash

space

Shows all logs that the show log

router has in its memory

View the interface status of show interface e0

interface e0
Overview all interfaces on show ip interfaces brief
the router

View type of serial cable show controllers 0 (note the

on s0 space between the 's' and the
'0')

Display a summary of show cdp neighbor

connected cdp devices

Display detailed show cdp entry *

information on all devices

Display current routing show ip protocols

protocols

Display IP routing table show ip route

Display access lists, this show access-lists

includes the number of
displayed matches

Check the router can see show isdn status

the ISDN switch

Check a Frame Relay PVC show frame-relay pvc

connections

show lmi traffic stats show frame-relay lmi

Display the frame inverse show frame-relay map

ARP table

Cisco Router Basic Operations

Requirement Cisco Command

Enable Enter privileged mode

Return to user mode from disable

privileged

Exit Router Logout or exit or quit

Recall last command up arrow or

Recall next command down arrow or

Suspend or abort

Refresh screen output

Compleat Command TAB

Cisco Router Copy Commands

Requirement Cisco Command

Save the current configuration copy running-config startup-config

from DRAM to NVRAM
Merge NVRAM configuration to copy startup-config running-config
DRAM

Copy DRAM configuration to a copy runing-config tftp

TFTP server

Merge TFTP configuration with copy tftp runing-config

current router configuration held
in DRAM

Backup the IOS onto a TFTP copy flash tftp

server

Upgrade the router IOS from a copy tftp flash

TFTP server

Cisco Router Debug Commands

Requirement Cisco Command

Enable debug for RIP debug ip rip

Enable summary IGRP debug ip igrp events

debug information

Enable detailed IGRP debug ip igrp transactions

debug information

Debug IPX RIP debug ipx routing activity

Debug IPX SAP debug IPX SAP

Enable debug for CHAP debug ppp authentication

or PAP

Switch all debugging off no debug all

undebug all