Module 3

Configuring a Router

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Router Configuration Tasks
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• Name a router
• Set passwords
• Examine show commands
• Configure a serial interface
• Configure an Ethernet interface
• Execute changes to a router
• Save changes to a router
• Configure an interface description
• Configure a message-of-the-day banner
• Configure host tables
• Understand the importance of backups and documentation

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Router Modes
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• All configuration changes are made

from Global Config mode
• Ctrl-Z or end
returns to Privileged EXEC mode
• exit
Go back one step

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Configure Hostname
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• Not essential for the functioning of our routers but is important

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 Configuring passwords
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• An important feature
security
telnet (vty) will not work without a
password set

• Line console 0
sets login password for User EXEC mode

• Enable password xxx

sets login password for Privileged EXEC
mode

• Enable secret
sets encrypted password for Privileged
EXEC mode
(strong encryption)

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Show Commands • show history - Displays a history of
• show interfaces – Displays statistics for commands that have been www.pnj.ac.id
entered
all interfaces on a router.

Router#show interfaces serial 0/1 • show flash - Displays information about

• show controllers serial - Displays
information that is specific to the
interface hardware. This command
must also include the port or slot/port
number of the serial interface.
Router#show controllers serial 0/1
• show clock - Shows the time set in the
router
• show hosts - Displays a cached list of
host names and addresses
flash memory and what IOS files are
stored there
• show version - Displays information
about the currently loaded software
version along with hardware and
device information
• show arp - Displays the ARP table of
the router
• show protocols - Displays the global and
interface-specific status of any
configured Layer 3 protocols

• show startup-config - Displays the saved

• show users - Displays all users who are configuration located in NVRAM
connected to the router

• show running-config
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Configuring an interface
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Configuring an Ethernet Interface
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Configuring a Serial Interface
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Router(config)# interface fastethernet 0/0

Router(config-if)# ip address 190.100.11.1 255.255.255.0
Router(config-if)# no shutdown

Serial Interface (DCE) (no clock for DTE)

Router(config)# interface serial 0/0

Router(config-if)# ip address 190.100.10.2 255.255.255.0
Router(config-if)# clock rate 56000
Router(config-if)# no shutdown
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Configuring Interface Descriptions
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An interface description should identify important

information such as a router, a circuit number, or a
specific network segment.

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The Login Banner
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• The Banner is seen when someone attempts to login
• Important to let user know it is a private system

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Login Banner MOTD
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• Configured from Global Config mode
• Use the Banner MOTD command

• Use delimiters (#) to indicate start and end of message

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Host Name Resolution
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• Two Choices

DNS
Dynamic
(not available in our lab)

Hosts Table
Static entries
Used in our lab situation
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Configuring Hosts Tables
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• The Host table contains:
Name
IP address of each router in the network
• The host name in a command will be resolved to an IP
address if the name is found in the table
i.e. ping Auckland
is translated to ping 172.16.32.1 (if the hosts below
entered)
• Host tables only apply to the the local router

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The copy running-config tftp
Command
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Backing up Configuration Files

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The copy tftp running-config Command
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Restoring Configuration Files from a TFTP Server

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Changing Router Configuration
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Configuration Standards
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• Configuration Standards may specify:

How the files are stored

Where the files are stored
Naming conventions
Who has access
Coding standards – e.g. comments, sections, etc
Interface descriptions

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