Step by step teach you how to configure a cisco Router

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