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The document summarizes a laboratory activity where students initially configure a Cisco router. They configure the router host name, passwords, banner messages, and verify the configuration. Key steps included setting the host name to "CustomerRouter", configuring privileged mode and secret passwords as "cisco" and "cisco123", enabling password encryption, adding a banner message, and disabling DNS lookups. The activity aims to provide the basic settings needed before deploying a router.

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Lab. Act#3-1

The document summarizes a laboratory activity where students initially configure a Cisco router. They configure the router host name, passwords, banner messages, and verify the configuration. Key steps included setting the host name to "CustomerRouter", configuring privileged mode and secret passwords as "cisco" and "cisco123", enabling password encryption, adding a banner message, and disabling DNS lookups. The activity aims to provide the basic settings needed before deploying a router.

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Adamson University

College of Engineering
Computer Engineering Department

Computer Networks Lab.


Friday 2 pm – 5 pm

Laboratory Activity #3
Performing an Initial Router Configuration

Submitted by:
Student’s Name: Student #: Signature:
Acejo, Ken Aldrich V. 201513735

Buenaventura, Jeb Aldin M. 201611157

Mojica, Zedrik Maxwell M. 201410133

Reomales, Cedric Joel R. 201511705

Yap, Juv Nicholas 201214253

Submitted to:
Engr. Maria Concepcion A. Mirabueno

November 1, 2021
Date
Topology

Objectives

• • Configure the router host name.


• • Configure passwords.
• • Configure banner messages.
• • Verify the router configuration.

Background / Preparation

In this activity, you will use the Cisco IOS CLI to apply an initial configuration to a router, including host
name, passwords, a message-of-the-day (MOTD) banner, and other basic settings.

Note: Some of the steps are not graded by Packet Tracer.

Step 1: Configure the router host name.

a. On Customer PC, use the terminal emulation software to connect to the console of the customer Cisco 1841 ISR.

Set the host name on the router to CustomerRouter by using these commands.

Router>enable
Router#configure terminal

Router(config)#hostname CustomerRouter

Step 2: Configure the privileged mode and secret passwords.

a. In global configuration mode, set the password to cisco.


CustomerRouter(config)#enable password cisco
Set an encrypted privileged password to cisco123 using the secret command.

CustomerRouter(config)#enable secret cisco123

Step 3: Configure the console password.

a. In global configuration mode, switch to line configuration mode to specify the console line.

CustomerRouter(config)#line console 0
Set the password to cisco123, require that the password be entered at login, and then exit line configuration mode.

CustomerRouter(config-line)#password cisco123

CustomerRouter(config-line)#login

CustomerRouter(config-line)#exit

CustomerRouter(config)#

Step 4: Configure the vty password to allow Telnet access to the router.

a. In global configuration mode, switch to line configuration mode to specify the vty lines.

CustomerRouter(config)#line vty 0 4
Set the password to cisco123, require that the password be entered at login, exit line configuration mode, and then

exit the configuration session.

CustomerRouter(config-line)#password cisco123

CustomerRouter(config-line)#login

CustomerRouter(config-line)#exit

CustomerRouter(config)#

Step 5: Configure password encryption, a MOTD banner, and turn off domain server lookup.

a. Currently, the line passwords and the enable password are shown in clear text when you show the running
configuration. Verify this now by entering the show running-config command.

To avoid the security risk of someone looking over your shoulder and reading the passwords, encrypt all clear text
passwords.

CustomerRouter(config)#service password-encryption
Use the show running-config command again to verify that the passwords are encrypted.

To provide a warning when someone attempts to log in to the router, configure a MOTD banner.

CustomerRouter(config)#banner motd $Authorized Access Only!$


Test the banner and passwords. Log out of the router by typing the exit command twice. The banner displays before
the prompt for a password. Enter the password to log back into the router.

You may have noticed that when you enter a command incorrectly at the user or privileged EXEC prompt, the router
pauses while trying to locate an IP address for the mistyped word you entered. For example, this output shows what
happens when the enable command is mistyped.

CustomerRouter>emable
Translating "emable"...domain server (255.255.255.255)

To prevent this from happening, use the following command to stop all DNS lookups from the router CLI.

CustomerRouter(config)#no ip domain-lookup

Save the running configuration to the startup configuration.

CustomerRouter(config)#end

CustomerRouter#copy run start

Step 6: Verify the configuration.

1. Log out of your terminal session with the Cisco 1841 customer router.
2. Log in to the Cisco 1841 Customer Router. Enter the console password when prompted.
3. Navigate to privileged EXEC mode. Enter the privileged EXEC password when prompted.
4. Click the Check Results button at the bottom of this instruction window to check your work.
I. Laboratory Questions:

1. Which IOS CLI commands did you use most? List all.
• Enable
• Configure Terminal
2. How can you make the customer router passwords make secure?
Explain briefly.
• It is important to encrypt your router password, because it allows
you to securely protect data that you don’t want anyone else to
have access to.

II. Screen Shots.

III. Video.
Expt #3

IV. Analysis.
A router must be configured with specific settings before it can be deployed. New
routers are not configured. They must be initially configured using the console
port.

V. Conclusion.
A router is one of the most important components on a network, directing traffic
across networks and allowing computers to communicate over large distances.
You need to configure the router so that it can communicate with your network
components.

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