After decades of development, from the first four-node ARPANET to the ubiquitous Internet, computer networks have penetrated into our lives. With the explosive growth of the computer network scale, as a router to connect devices also become more important.
When a company builds a network, how to reasonably configure and manage the router becomes one of the important tasks of the Network Manager. This topic describes how to configure a cisco router from the simplest configuration.
Many readers are very vague about the concept of a router. In fact, as mentioned in many documents, a router is a computer with multiple network interfaces. This kind of special computer also has similar hardware like CPU, memory, system bus, input and output interface and PC, but it provides different functions than ordinary computers.
Like a common computer, a router also needs a software operating system. In a cisco router, this operating system is called an Internet Operating System, which is the most frequently heard IOS software. Next, let us learn the most basic router configuration method step by step.
Basic configurations of a cisco router:
Cisco IOS Software Overview
Configure a Cisco router for the first time
How to connect to the control port of a cisco Router
How to set the cisco router Host Name
How to enter the cisco router configuration mode
How to Set a CISCO Router password
How to configure an Ethernet Interface
How to configure the serial interface of a cisco Router
How to map IP addresses to vro host names
How to set the logon welcome language
Cisco router Show command explanation
Introduction to Cisco Discovery Protocol
Common CDP commands
Basic Network Test command:
Remote connection command Telnet Introduction
How to Establish a remote telnet connection session
How to suspend and disable a telnet connection session
Use the ping command to detect network layer protocols and hardware
How to display the router that passes through the destination
Manage configuration files and IOS software commands
Cisco router Startup Process
How does a cisco router locate and mount IOS
Use the boot system command to change the IOS loading location
How to back up the cisco router configuration file
How to back up and upgrade IOS images in flash memory