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Glossory: Enable

This document provides summaries of common Cisco IOS commands used for configuration and troubleshooting. Some key commands include enable to access privileged mode, show running-config to view the current device configuration, interface to configure interface settings, and routing protocols like router ospf to enable OSPF routing.

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Glossory: Enable

This document provides summaries of common Cisco IOS commands used for configuration and troubleshooting. Some key commands include enable to access privileged mode, show running-config to view the current device configuration, interface to configure interface settings, and routing protocols like router ospf to enable OSPF routing.

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Glossory

Enable

Switches to the privileged level command set.

Ping

Allows you to verify reachbility of a remote device.

telnet

Allows you connect to another device remotely

Exit

Logs you out of your session if you are in unprivileged


execmode

Configure Terminal
To enter global configuration mode, use the configure
terminal command in privileged EXEC mode.

Copy Running-config Startup-config


This command lets you save your running configuration
to the router's startup configuration (NVRAM) so it will
survive a reload.

erase start
This command lets you erase your startup-
configuration. When you reload the router or switch it
will return to its default configuration.

clock set

Sets the date and time on the router. It is important to


configure your date and time in order to properly
manage logs

Clear

This command is used to reboot the Cisco device


Copy Startup-config Running-config
This command lets you merge your saved config with
the running configuration. The command overwrites
conflicting infomation such as interface IP addresses
but keeps new information in the config

ip domain-lookup
This command allows the router to assume that any
non-keyword entered in the command console is
supposed to be resolved into an IP address. This is a
default command.
Most people disable this command as it can be a
frequent annoyance to those who mistype words on a
regular basis.

Hostname

Sets the hostname of the router.

Interface
Selects an interface on the router to enter into
configuration mode.

Router

The router command allows you to enable a routing


process.

Username

Creates a new user on the router.

ip classless

This command allows your router to ignore classful IP


boundaries when processing packets. This command is
on by default.
Without this command the router would not be able to
correctly process default routes and discontinuous
networks.

ip dhcp pool
This command enables DHCP services on the
router and specifies the various DHCP options the
server will assign to clients.

enable secret

Sets an encrypted password for enable mode on the


router.

ip route

Allows you to set static routes to define how to reach


remote networks

interface loopback

This command creates a logical interface on the router.


These are handy from an administrative perspective
because the loopback interface will also stay in a up/up
state unless you shutdown the interface

banner motd

This command is used to set the banner message that is


displayed before remote login to the router
router rip

The router rip command is necessary to enable RIP. RIP


must be enabled before carrying out any of the RIP
commands.

router eigrp
The router eigrp command is necessary to enable
EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol).
EIGRP must be enabled before carrying out any of the
EIGRP commands.

router ospf

The router ospf (Open Shortest Path First) command is


necessary to enable ospf. OSPF must be enabled before
carrying out any of the ospf commands. OSPF was
designed to be an Interior Gateway Protocol replacing
RIP.
Routers that use OSPF check the status of other routers
on the network by sending a "hello" packet at set
intervals. When a router does not respond to a hello
packet, it is considered to be dead and a routing update
is sent to every router on the network using a multicast
address.
When OSPF is running on a network it uses very little
bandwidth, only sending "hello" packets. When an
outage occurs, OSPF floods the network sending out
routing updates to every router. Those routers then send
out the routing update, flooding the network. OSPF runs
almost silent when possible, and floods the network
when necessary to ensure routing information gets
propagated throughout the network as quickly as
possible.

ip nat pool

This command is used to create a pool of IP addresses


that NAT will translate other addresses into. The
address range is used on a first come, first serve basis.

ip nat inside source list

This command is used to specify an access-list that


matches which IPs should be translated
ip nat inside source static

This command is used to specify a map between a


specific IP address (and port number if required). Used
when you must use only a certain IP address or port
such as SMTP.

enable password

Sets a non-encrypted password for enable mode on the


router.

ip address

This command is used to set IP addresses on an


interface.

clock rate

This command is used to set the clock rate on serial


links. While you can configure the clock rate on both
ends of the serial link, the router will only accept the
command on the DCE end.
Encapsulation

This command sets the encapsulation type for an


interface

Bandwidth

This command is used to logically set the bandwidth of


an interface. This does not affect the physical speed of
the link, it only affects routing protocols and other
technologies that use bandwidth as a calculation.

Shutdown

This command will administratively disable an


interface. Alternatively, you can enable the interface by
negating the command using no shutdown.

encapsulation dot1q

Allows you to use a router interface as a trunk port to a


switch. This is also known as "Router on a stick"
because the switch uses the router to route between
VLANs.
encapsulation ppp

This command enables PPP encapsulation and


functionality on a serial interface.

ppp authentication chap

This command enables CHAP authentication on the


PPP link.

encapsulation frame-relay

This command enables frame-relay on a serial interface

frame-relay interface-dlci
This command sets frame-relay to only use a single
DLCI. This is used for point-to-point links

frame-relay inverse arp


This command enables frame-relay inverse-arp. Frame-
relay uses inverse-map to dynamically learn remote IP
addresses and its local DLCIs.
ppp authentication pap

This command is used to authenticate a link using PAP.

logging synchronous

When enabled on a console, logging synchronous


causes all router status messages to be displayed on a
new line

login
Enables authentication for console connections to
router. Contrary to what it may sound like, the no login
command will actually disable authentication to the
console port on the router. This means that anyone will
be able to access the router without having to provide a
password.

exec-timeout

Sets the timeout period for console session inactivity.


Password

Enables console session locking.

Show Running-Config
Shows the current configuration of a device. This is one
of the first commands you will enter when trying to
understand how a device is configured

Show Startup-Config
Shows the saved startup configuration on a router.

show ip interface brief

This command displays a brief summary of the


interfaces on a device. Its useful for quickly checking
the status of the device.

show ip protocols
This command displays a summary of configured
routing protocol information. It is useful for quickly
verifying how routing protocols are configured. It is
mainly used for RIP, since there aren't very many other
troubleshooting commands available.

Network
Specifies which interfaces will participate in the OSPF
process.

passive-interface

This command prevents OSPF from forming


adjacencies on specified interfaces on the router. Using
no passive-interface is used to allow all OSPF
communication.

router-id

This command manually sets the router-id used by


OSPF. If it is not set, OSPF will automatically set its
router-id to be the highest loopback IP address or the
highest IP address (if no loopback interfaces are
present). One thing to note is, even though the router-id
is based on an IP address, it can be set to any 32 bit
number in an IP address format. For example:
255.255.255.255 is an acceptable router-id.
passive-interface default

This command prevents OSPF from forming


adjacencies on all interfaces on the router. Using no
passive interface default command is used to allow
OSPF communication.

distribute-list

Allows you to filter routes from the routing table. For


CCNA purposes, this is usually done through access
lists.

auto-cost reference-bandwidth

Changes how OSPF calculates its metric. By default, a


FastEthernet and above will have a cost of 1, so a
gigabit interface will be equal with a fastethernet.

Distance
Allows you to filter routes from the routing table. For
CCNA purposes, this is usually done through access
lists.

distance ospf

This command changes the administrative distance for


OSPF routes.

Neighbour

This command tells OSPF to communicate with unicast


updates to a specific neighbor. This is particularly
useful over non-broadcast links, such as frame-relay, as
adjacenies will not form by default.

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