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Cisco Router Basic Configuration Tutorial
David Aliata, daliata@wcs.org 16th September, 2011 Conventions All names and addresses used in examples are just that, examples, and should not be used on your network. Do not type them in verbatim when configuring your system. Finally, in some examples where the command requires an IP address as an argument, the IP address may be represented in this way, xx.xx.xx.xx, or aa.bb.cc.dd. You will never actually use these strings when configuring your system. They are merely a convention of this document to specify that you should substitute the appropriate IP address at that point.

1. What this document covers
There are several methods available for configuring Cisco routers. It can be done over the network from a TFTP server. It can be done through the menu interface provided at bootup, and it can be done from the menu interface provided by using the command setup. This tutorial does not cover these methods. It covers configuration from the IOS command-line interface only. Useful for anyone new to Cisco routers.

1.1 Reasons for using the command-line
The main reason for using the command-line interface instead of a menu driven interface is speed. Once you have invested the time to learn the command-line commands, you can perform many operations much more quickly than by using a menu. This is basically true of all command-line vs. menu interfaces. What makes it especially efficient to learn the command-line interface of the Cisco IOS is that it is standard across all Cisco equipments.

2. Getting started with Cisco
Initially when you receive your Cisco equipment, you will probably configure this from a terminal. If the router/switch/firewall is already configured and at least one port is configured with an IP address, and it has a physical connection to the network, you might be able to telnet to the router and configure it across the network. If it is not already configured, then you will have to directly connect to it with a terminal and a serial cable. With any Windows box you can use Hyperterminal to easily connect to the router. Plug a serial cable into a serial (COM) port on the PC and the other end into the console port on the Cisco router. Start HyperTerminal, tell it which COM port to use (I almost always use COM1) and click OK. Set the speed of the connection to 9600 baud and click OK. If the router is not on, turn it on.

Often you will need to hit the Enter key to see the prompt from the router. If it is unconfigured it will look like this:
Router>

If it has been previously configured with a hostname, it will look like this:
Wcskaren>

If you have just turned on the router, after it boots it will ask you if you wish to begin initial configuration. Say no. If you say yes, it will put you in the menu interface. Say no.

2.1 Modes
The Cisco IOS command-line interface is organized around the idea of modes. You move in and out of several different modes while configuring a router, and which mode you are in determines what commands you can use. Each mode has a set of commands available in that mode, and some of these commands are only available in that mode. In any mode, typing a question mark will display a list of the commands available in that mode.
Router>?

2.2 Unprivileged and privileged modes
When you first connect to the router and provide the password (if necessary), you enter EXEC mode, the first mode in which you can issue commands from the command-line. From here you can use such unprivileged commands as ping, telnet, and rlogin. You can also use some of the show commands to obtain information about the system. In unprivileged mode you use commands like, show version to display the version of the IOS the router is running. Typing show ? will display all the show commands available in the mode you are presently in.
Router>show ?

You must enter privileged mode to configure the router. You do this by using the command enable. Privileged mode will usually be password protected unless the router is unconfigured. You have the option of not password protecting privileged mode, but it is HIGHLY recommended that you do. When you issue the command enable and provide the password, you will enter privileged mode. To help the user keep track of what mode they are in, the command-line prompt changes each time you enter a different mode. When you switch from unprivileged mode to privileged mode, the prompt changes from:
Router>

to

Router#

This would probably not be a big deal if there were just two modes. There are, in fact, numerous modes, and this feature is probably indispensable. Pay close attention to the prompt at all times. Within privileged mode there are many sub-modes. Once you enter privileged mode (parent mode) the prompt ends with a pound sign (#). There are numerous modes you can enter only after entering privileged mode. Each of these modes has a prompt of the form: Router(arguments)# They still all end with the pound sign. They are subsumed within privileged mode. Many of these modes have sub-modes of their own. Once you enter privileged mode, you have access to all the configuration information and options the IOS provides, either directly from the parent mode, or from one of its submodes.

3. Configuring your Cisco Router
If you have just turned on the router, it will be completely unconfigured. If it is already configured, you may want to view its current configuration. Even if it has not been previously configured, you should familiarize yourself with the show commands before beginning to configure the router. Enter privileged mode by issuing the command enable, then issue several show commands to see what they display. Remember, the command show ? will display all the show commands available in the current mode. Try out the following commands:
Router#show Router#show Router#show Router#show Router#show Router#show Router#show interfaces ip protocols ipv6 protocols ip route ipv6 route ip arp ipv6 neighbors

When you enter privileged mode by using the command enable, you are in the top-level mode of privileged mode. It is in this top-level that you can display most of the information about the router. As you now know, you do this with the show commands. Here you can learn the configuration of interfaces and whether they are up or down. You can display what IP protocols are in use, such as dynamic routing protocols. You can view the route and ARP tables, and these are just a few of the more important options. As you configure the router, you will enter various sub-modes to set options, and then return to the parent mode to display the results of your commands. You also return to the parent mode to enter other sub-modes. To return to the parent mode, you hit ctrl-z. This puts any commands you have just issued into effect, and returns you to parent mode.

3.1 Global configuration (config)

To configure any feature of the router, you must enter configuration mode. This is the first submode of the parent mode. In the parent mode, you issue the command config t.
Router#config t Router(config)#

As demonstrated above, the prompt changes to indicate the mode that you are now in. In configuration mode you can set options that apply system-wide, also referred to as "global configurations." For instance, it is a good idea to name your router so that you can easily identify it. You do this in configuration mode with the hostname command.
Router(config)#hostname Wcskaren Wcskaren(config)#

As demonstrated above, when you set the name of the host with the hostname command, the prompt immediately changes by replacing Router with Wcskaren. (Note: It is a good idea to name your routers with an organized naming scheme.) Another useful command issued from config mode is the command to designate the DNS server to be used by the router:
Wcskaren(config)#ip name-server aa.bb.cc.dd Wcskaren(config)#ctrl-Z Wcskaren#

This is also where you set the password for privileged mode.
Wcskaren(config)#enable secret yourpassword Wcskaren(config)#ctrl-Z Wcskaren#

Until you hit ctrl-Z (or type exit until you reach parent mode) your command has not been put into effect. You can enter config mode, issue several different commands, then hit ctrl-Z to activate them all. Each time you hit ctrl-Z you return to parent mode and the prompt:
Wcskaren#

Here you use show commands to verify the results of the commands you issued in config mode. To verify the results of the ip name-server command, issue the command show host.

3.2 Configuring Cisco router interfaces
Cisco interface naming is straightforward. Individual interfaces are referred to by this convention: media type slot#/port#

"Media type" refers to the type of media that the port is an interface for, such as Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, serial, etc. Slot numbers are only applicable for routers that provide slots into which you can install modules. These modules contain several ports for a given media. The 7200 series is an example. These modules are even hot-swapable. You can remove a module from a slot and replace it with a different module, without interrupting service provided by the other modules installed in the router. These slots are numbered on the router. Port number refers to the port in reference to the other ports in that module. Numbering is left-toright, and all numbering starts at 0, not at one. For example, a Cisco 7206 is a 7200 series router with six slots. To refer to an interface that is the third port of an Ethernet module installed in the sixth slot, it would be interface ethernet 6/2. Therefore, to display the configuration of that interface you use the command:
Wcskaren#show interface ethernet 6/2

If your router does not have slots, like a 1600, then the interface name consists only of: media type port#

For example:
Wcskaren#show interface serial 0

Here is an example of configuring a serial port with an IP address:
Wcskaren#config Wcskaren(config)#interface serial 1/1 Wcskaren(config-if)#ip address 192.168.155.2 255.255.255.0 Wcskaren(config-if)#no shutdown Wcskaren(config-if)#ctrl-Z Wcskaren#

Then to verify configuration:
Wcskaren#show interface serial 1/1

Note the no shutdown command. An interface may be correctly configured and physically connected, yet be "administratively down." In this state it will not function. The command for causing an interface to be administratively down is shutdown.
Wcskaren(config)#interface serial 1/1 Wcskaren(config-if)#shutdown Wcskaren(config-if)#ctrl-Z Wcskaren#show interface serial 1/1

In the Cisco IOS, the way to reverse or delete the results of any command is to simply put no infront of it. For instance, if we wanted to unassign the IP address we had assigned to interface serial 1/1:

Wcskaren(config)#interface serail 1/1 Wcskaren(config-if)#no ip address 192.168.155.2 255.255.255.0 Wcskaren(config-if)ctrl-Z Wcskaren#show interface serial 1/1

Configuring most interfaces for LAN connections might consist only of assigning a network layer address and making sure the interface is not administratively shutdown. It is usually not necessary to stipulate data-link layer encapsulation. Note that it is often necessary to stipulate the appropriate data-link layer encapsulation for WAN connections, such as frame-relay and ATM. Serial interfaces default to using HDLC. A discussion of data-link protocols is outside the scope of this basics document.

3.3 Configuring Cisco Routing
IP routing is automatically enabled on Cisco routers. If it has been previously disabled on your router, you turn it back on in config mode with the command ip routing.
Wcskaren(config)#ip routing Wcskaren(config)#ctrl-Z

There are two main ways a router knows where to send packets. The administrator can assign static routes, or the router can learn routes by employing a dynamic routing protocol. Static routes are generally used in very simple networks or in particular cases that necessitate their use. To create a static route, the administrator tells the router operating system that any network traffic destined for a specified network layer address should be forwarded to a similiarly specified network layer address. In the Cisco IOS this is done with the ip route command.
Wcskaren#config Wcskaren(config)#ip route 172.16.0.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.150.1 Wcskaren(config)#ctrl-Z Wcskaren#show ip route Wcskaren#config

Two things to be said about this example. First, the packet destination address must include the subnet mask for that destination network. Second, the address it is to be forwarded to is the specified address of the next router along the path to the destination. This is the most common way of setting up a static route. Be aware, however, that there are other methods. Dynamic routing protocols, running on connected routers, enable those routers to share routing information. This enables routers to learn the routes available to them. The advantage of this method is that routers are able to adjust to changes in network topologies. If a route is physically removed, or a neighbor router goes down, the routing protocol searches for a new route. Routing protocols can even dynamically choose between possible routes based on variables such as network congestion or network reliability.

There are many different routing protocols, and they all use different variables, known as "metrics," to decide upon appropriate routes. Unfortunately, a router needs to be running the same routing protocols as its neighbors. Many routers can, however, run multiple protocols. Also, many protocols are designed to be able to pass routing information to other routing protocols. This is called "redistribution."

3.4 Saving your Cisco Router configuration
Once you have configured routing on the router, and you have configured individual interfaces, your router should be capable of routing traffic. Give it a few moments to talk to its neighbors, then issue the commands show ip route and show ip arp. There should now be entries in these tables learned from the routing protocol. If you turned the router off right now, and turned it on again, you would have to start configuration over again. Your running configuration is not saved to any permanent storage media. You can see this configuration with the command show running-config.
Wcskaren#show running-config

You do want to save your successful running configuration. Issue the command copy runningconfig startup-config.
Wcskaren#copy running-config startup-config

Your configuration is now saved to non-volatile RAM (NVRAM). Issue the command show startup-config.
Wcskaren#show startup-config

Now any time you need to return your router to that configuration, issue the command copy startup-config running-config.
Wcskaren#copy startup-config running-config

3.5 Example Cisco Router configuration
1. Router>enable 2. Router#config 3. Router(config)#hostname WCSKAREN 4. WCSKAREN(config)#interface serial 1/1 5. WCSKAREN(config-if)ip address 192.168.155.2 255.255.255.0 6. WCSKAREN(config-if)no shutdown 7. WCSKAREN(config-if)ctrl-z 8. WCSKAREN#show interface serial 1/1 9. WCSKAREN#config 10. WCSKAREN(config)#interface ethernet 2/3

11. WCSKAREN(config-if)#ip address 192.168.150.90 255.255.255.0 12. WCSKAREN(config-if)#no shutdown 13. WCSKAREN(config-if)#ctrl-z 14. WCSKAREN#show interface ethernet 2/3 15. WCSKAREN#config 16. WCSKAREN(config)#ip name-server 172.16.0.10 17. WCSKAREN(config)#ctrl-z 18. WCSKAREN#ping wcs.org 19. WCSKAREN#config 20. WCSKAREN(config)#enable secret password 21. WCSKAREN(config)#ctrl-z 22. WCSKAREN#copy running-config startup-config 23. WCSKAREN#exit

4. Troubleshooting your Cisco router
If you are unable to reach a certain destination. You will need to be able to check how the router is attempting to route traffic, and you must be able to track down the point of failure. You are already familiar with the show commands, both specific commands and how to learn what other show commands are available. Some of the most basic, most useful commands you will use for troubleshooting are:
Router#show Router#show Router#show Router#show interfaces ip protocols ip route ip arp

4.1 Testing connectivity
It is very possible that the point of failure is not in your router configuration or at your router at all. If you examine your router's configuration and operation and everything looks good, the problem might be further up the line. In fact, it may be the line itself, or it could be another router, which may or may not be under your administration. One extremely useful and simple diagnostic tool is the ping command. Ping is an implementation of the IP Message Control Protocol (ICMP). Ping sends an ICMP echo request to a destination IP address. If the destination machine receives the request, it responds with an ICMP echo response.
Wcskaren#ping xx.xx.xx.xx

If the ping test is successful, you know that the destination you are having difficulty reaching is alive and physically reachable.

If there are routers between your router and the destination you are having difficulty reaching, the problem might be at one of the other routers. Even if you ping a router and it responds, it might have other interfaces that are down, its routing table may be corrupted, or any number of other problems may exist. To see where packets that leave your router for a particular destination go, and how far, use the trace command.
Wcskaren#trace xx.xx.xx.xx

It may take a few minutes for this utility to finish, so give it some time. It will display a list of all the hops it makes on the way to the destination.

4.2 Hardware and physical connections
Do not overlook the possibility that the point of failure is a hardware or physical connection failure. Any number of things can go wrong, from board failures to cut cables to power failures.. Check to see that the router is turned on. Also make sure that no cables are loose or damaged. Finally, make sure cables are plugged into the correct ports.

4.3 Out of your control
If the point of failure is farther up the line, the problem might lie with equipment not under your administration. Your only option might be to contact the equipment's administrator, notify them of your problem, and ask them for help. It is in your interest to be courteous and respectful.

5. References
Cisco Systems, Inc., http://www.cisco.com

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