Name: Trusha Neogi Date: 24/4/22
Roll No: 191105082
Branch: TE Comp
EXPERIMENT 4
TITLE: Study of basic network command and Network configuration command.
APPARATUS (SOFTWARE): Command Prompt and Packet Tracer.
PROCEDURE: To do this experiment- follows these steps: In this experiment- students
have to understand basic networking commands e.g., ping, tracert etc.
All commands related to Network configuration which includes how to switch to
privilege mode and normal mode and how to configure router interface and how to
save this configuration to flash memory or permanent memory.
This command includes:
. Configuring the Router commands
. General Commands to configure network
. Privileged Mode commands of a router
. Router Processes & Statistics
. IP Commands
. Other IP Commands e.g., show IP route etc.
ping:
ping(8) sends an ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packet to the specified host. If the host
responds, you get an ICMP packet back. Sound strange? Well, you can “ping” an IP
address to see if a machine is alive. If there is no response, you know something is
wrong.
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Traceroute:
Tracert is a command which can show you the path a packet of information taken from
your computer to one you specify. It will list all the routers it passes through until it
reaches its destination, or fails to and is discarded. In addition to this, it will tell you
how long each 'hop' from router to router takes.
nslookup:
Displays information from Domain Name System (DNS) name servers. NOTE: If you
write the command as above it shows as default your pc's server name firstly.
pathping:
A better version of tracert that gives you statics about packet lost and latency.
Getting Help
In any command mode, you can get a list of available commands by entering a
question mark (?).
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Router>?
To obtain a list of commands that begin with a particular character sequence, type in
those characters followed immediately by the question mark (?).
Router#co?
configure connect copy
To list keywords or arguments, enter a question mark in place of a keyword or
argument. Include a space before the question mark.
Router#configure ?
memory Configure from NV memory
network Configure from a TFTP network host
terminal Configure from the terminal
You can also abbreviate commands and keywords by entering just enough characters
to make the command unique from other commands. For example, you can abbreviate
the show command to sh.
Configuration Files
Any time you make changes to the router configuration, you must save the changes to
memory because if you do not, they will be lost if there is a system reload or power
outage. There are two types of configuration files: the running (current operating)
configuration and the startup configuration.
Use the following privileged mode commands to work with configuration files.
configure terminal – modify the running configuration manually from the terminal.
show running-config – display the running configuration.
show startup-config – display the startup configuration.
copy running-config startup-config – copy the running configuration to the startup
configuration.
copy startup-config running-config – copy the startup configuration to the running
configuration.
erase startup-config – erase the startup-configuration in NVRAM.
copy tftp running-config – load a configuration file stored on a Trivial File Transfer
Protocol (TFTP) server into the running configuration.
copy running-config tftp – store the running configuration on a TFTP server.
IP Address Configuration
Take the following steps to configure the IP address of an interface.
Step 1: Enter privileged EXEC mode:
Router>enable password
Step 2: Enter the configure terminal command to enter global configuration mode.
Router#config terminal
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Step 3: Enter the interface type slot/port (for Cisco 7000 series) or interface type port
(for Cisco 2500 series) to enter the interface configuration mode.
Example: Router (config)#interface ethernet 0/1
Step 4: Enter the IP address and subnet mask of the interface using the IP address IP
address subnet mask command.
Example, Router (config-if)#ip address 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0
Step 5: Exit the configuration mode by pressing Ctrl-Z
Router(config-if)#[Ctrl-Z]
CONCLUSION: Basic network command and Network configuration commands were
studied successfully.
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