Department of Information Technology

ITEC588 – Network Device Configuration

Chapter 1: Basic Router

Configuration

Presenter: Dr. Patrick D. Cerna

Asst. Professor
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 Chapter 2 Objectives

• Connecting to a Cisco Router

• Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Administrative functions
– Hostnames
– Banners
– Passwords
– Interface descriptions
• Verifying your configuration

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 Router Access (Connecting to a Cisco Router - 173)
• Console port (console)
– Rollover cable (each end is a mirror-image o/t other)
• RJ-45 to DB-9
• RJ-45 to DB-25
• Auxiliary port (AUX)
– Can function like a console port
– Or, can accept modem commands, i.e., from sources
outside the network (i.e., “out of band”)
• Virtual terminal (VTY)
– This is for telnet access
– This kind of access is from within the network (i.e., “in
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Connecting To A Cisco Router

Cisco 2811

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 Setup Mode

• Basic Management Setup

• Extended Setup
• Command-Line Interface

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 Command-Line Interface (CLI)
• More flexible than setup mode.
• To use the CLI, just say “No” to entering the initial
configuration dialog.
• Initial prompt consists of two parts
– Hostname
– Greater than symbol (>)

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 Overview of Router Modes
• Global changes:
– config terminal or config t
– Changes made to running-config (DRAM)
– To change the startup-config (NVRAM)
• config memory or config mem
• Note: Any configuration changes need to be placed
into RAM.
• Typing “config mem” or “config net” (from a TFTP
host) will append the current running-config

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 Configuration Modes
• Global configuration mode
– Router(config)#
• Interface mode
– Router(config–if)#
• Line configuration mode
– Router(config-line)#
• Router configuration mode
– Router(config-router)#

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Configuration Modes

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Configuration

• CLI Prompts
• Interfaces
• Sub-interfaces
• Line Commands
• Routing Protocol
Configurations

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 Administrative Functions

The administrative functions that you can configure

on a router and switch are
• Hostnames
• Banners
• Passwords
• Interface descriptions

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 Hostnames & Descriptions
• Hostnames
Router(config)#hostname haramaya
todd(config)#

• Descriptions
Atlanta(config)#int e0
Atlanta(config-if)#description cci_lan

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 Banners
• Purpose: welcome message
• Types
– exec: set EXEC process creation banner
– incoming: set incoming terminal line banner
– login: login banner
– motd: set “Message of the Day” banner
• Delimiting character

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Banners

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 Setting the Passwords
• 5 passwords:
– 1st two used to set your enable password
• Used to secure privileged mode;
• Router>enable
• Or Router>en (because no other commands at privileged
level . begin with “en”

– Other three are used to configure a password in user mode via:

• console port
• auxiliary port
• Telnet

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 Passwords
• Enable passwords
– Router(config)#enable password cisco
– Router(config)#enable secret cisco
Note: the secret password supersedes the enable password,
i.e., if you set both passwords, you will be asked for the secret
password.
• Auxiliary Password
• Console Password
• Telnet Password
• Encrypting Your Password
Router(config)#service password-encryption
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Passwords

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Passwords

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Passwords

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Passwords

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Passwords

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 Interface Descriptions
Setting descriptions on an interface is helpful to the administrator and, like the
hostname, only locally significant. The description command is a helpful one
because you can, for instance, use it to keep track of circuit numbers.

Here’s an example:
Atlanta(config)#int e0
Atlanta(config-if)#description Sales Lan
Atlanta(config-if)#int s0
Atlanta(config-if)#desc Wan to Miami circuit:6fdda4321

You can view the description of an interface either with the show
running-config command or the show interface command.

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 Router Interfaces
• Bringing up an Interface
no shutdown
shutdown
show interface

• Configuring an IP Address on an Interface

Router(config)#int e0
Router(config-if)#ip address 172.16.10.2 255.255.255.0
Router(config-if)#no shut

• Serial Interface Commands

clock rate & bandwidth (entered in kilobits)

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 Viewing, & Saving Configurations
• Viewing & Saving Configurations
– running-config saved in DRAM
– startup-config saved in NVRAM
copy run start
sh run
sh start
erase startup-config

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 References:
• Glen E. Clarke, CompTIA Network+, 4th ed.,
2009 Mc Graw Hill
• CCNA Exploration, 2006, Cisco Press
• Todd Lammle, CCNA Study Guide, 7th Ed.,
2009, Sybex

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