Basic command to configure a router User mode: Router>enable .Enter Enable mode Router#configure terminal .

Enter global config mode Router(config)# To rename a router use command: Router(config)#hostname newroutername Password configuration: - Console password Router(config)#line console 0 Router(config-line)#login Router(config-line)#password password - Vty password Router(config)#line vty 0 4 Router(config-line)#login Router(config-line)#password password - Enable password Router(config)#enable password password - Secret password (secret password more priority than enable password. Secret password is encryption regardless of you are enter the service password-encyption command or not) Router(config)#enable secret password - Password encyption Router(config)#service password-encryption - A login banner is a message that is displayed at login Router(config)#banner motd # content of the message # (# begin and finish an message) - Defines a static hostname-IP mapping Router(config)#ip host hostname [tcp-port number] address1 [address2address8] (up to 08 address) - Defines one or more DNS servers Router(config)#ip name-server server-addr1 [server-addr2server-addr6] (up to 06 servers) - DNS Enable by default on cisco Router to Disables the use of DNS on a cisco router use command: Router(config)#no ip domain-lookup Configure interface ( type includes ethernet, fastethernet, tokenring, serial and other) Router(config)#interface type port Router(config)#interface type module/port Router(config-if)#ip address ip_address subnet_mark --assign ip address for interface Router(config-if)#no shutdown --turn on an interface (To turn off an interface use command: Router(config-if)#shutdown) On serial interface in lab you must consider DCE interface and provide clocking (to check an interface you can use the command: Router#show controllers serial port) Router(config-if)#encapsulation encap_type -- On Cisco router, HDLC is the default encapsulation on serial interface Router(config-if)#description description string -- configure descirption for an interface to notify - To creat a loopback interface: Router(config)#interface loopback loopback_interface_number Router(config-if)#ip address ip_address subnet_mark Router(config-if)#no shutdown Show command show interfaces Displays all the statistics for all the interfaces on the router or show interfaces serial 0/1 show controllers serial Displays information-specific to the interface hardware

show clock Shows the time set in the router show hosts Displays a cached list of host names and addresses show users Displays all users who are connected to the router show history Displays a history of commands that have been entered show flash Displays information about flash memory and what IOS files are stored there show version Displays information about the router and the IOS that is running in RAM show ARP Displays the ARP table of the router show protocol Displays the global and interface specific status of any configured Layer 3 protocols show startup-configuration Displays the saved configuration located in NVRAM show running-configuration Displays the configuration currently running in RAM CDP command On cisco router CDP enable by default To enable cdp on entire router use command: Router(config)#cdp run To enable cdp on an interface of the router use command: Router(config-if)#cdp enable Router#clear cdp counters Resets the traffic counters to zero Router#clear cdp table Deletes the CDP table of information about the neighbors Router#show cdp Display global cdp information, including timer and hold-time information Router#show cdp timer Router#show cdp holdtime Router#show cdp entry {*|device-name[*][protocol | version]} Router#show cdp interface [type number] Router#show cdp neighbors [type number] [detail] Router#show cdp traffic Router#show debuging Displays information about types of debuging that are enable Router#debug cdp ip Router#debug cdp packet Router#debug cdp adjacency Router#debug cdp events If CDP is disabled globally, individual interfaces cannot be enabled for CDP. To telnet to a device: Router>connect paris (if DNS available) Router#paris Router>131.108.100.152 Router>telnet paris To terminate a Telnet session any of the following alternatives can be used: Router>disconnect paris Router>exit To suspend a Telnet session: Press Ctrl-Shift-6, then x To set ideal timeout (default is 10 mins): Router(config-line)#exec-timeout minute [second] Backup and upgrade IOS and configuration for Router Router#copy running-config tftp copy running-config file to tftp server Router#copy tftp running-config copy a file from tftp server to running-config Router#copy flash tftp copy IOS from flash to tftp server Router#copy tftp flash upgrade IOS from tftp server to flash of router Configure Routing protocol - RIP Router#conf t

Router(config)#router rip Router(config-router)#network network_address (each network direct connect to router interface must have assign by network command) Router(config-router)#timers basic update invalid holddown flush [sleeptime] Change routing update timer parameters Router(config-router)#passive-interface type number Stop sending routing update out this interface Router(config-router)#redistribute static propagate static routes over routing updates Router#clear ip route * Clear routing table Other commands to troubleshoot RIP: show ip rip database show ip protocols show ip route debug ip rip {events} show ip interface brief - IGRP Router#conf t Router(config)#router igrp Autonomous_system_number Router(config-router)#network network_address (each network direct connect to router interface must have assign by network command) Verifying IGRP configuration show interface interface [brief] show running-config show ip protocols The following commands are useful when troubleshooting IGRP: show ip protocols show ip route debug ip igrp events debug ip igrp transactions ping traceroute Create a default route on the router which is being configured: ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 {ip_next_hop| interface} Static routes can be advertised to other router via dynamic routing update using: redistribute static IGRP has no concept of route 0.0.0.0/0 Tell other router to choose the network as the default route: ip default-network {network_number} Network_number must be a known classfull network (taken from routing table)