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The document outlines the steps to verify and configure a router's default settings, including establishing a console connection, entering privileged mode, and examining the current configuration. It details the commands needed to set the router's hostname, configure passwords, and save the running configuration to NVRAM. Additionally, it explains how to save the startup configuration file to flash for backup purposes.

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10.1.4 Packet Tracer

The document outlines the steps to verify and configure a router's default settings, including establishing a console connection, entering privileged mode, and examining the current configuration. It details the commands needed to set the router's hostname, configure passwords, and save the running configuration to NVRAM. Additionally, it explains how to save the startup configuration file to flash for backup purposes.

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Part 1: Verify the Default Router Configuration
Step 1: Establish a console connection to R1.
a. Choose a Console cable from the available connections. b. Click PC and select RS 232.
c. Click R1 and select Console.
d. Click PC > Desktop tab > Terminal.
e. Click OK and press ENTER. You are now able to configure R1.

Step 2: Enter privileged mode and examine the current configuration. You can access all the
router commands from privileged EXEC mode. However, because many of the privileged
commands configure operating parameters, privileged access should be password-protected to
prevent unauthorized use.
a. Enter privileged EXEC mode by entering the enable command. Open a configuration window
Router> enable
Router#
Notice that the prompt changed in the configuration to reflect privileged EXEC mode.
b. Enter the show running-config command.
Router# show running-config
Questions:
What is the router’s hostname? Type your answers here. Router
How many Fast Ethernet interfaces does the Router have? Type your answers here. 4
How many Gigabit Ethernet interfaces does the Router have? Type your answers here. 2
How many Serial interfaces does the router have? Type your answers here. 2
What is the range of values shown for the vty lines? Type your answers here. 0-4
c. Display the current contents of NVRAM.
Router# show startup-config
startup-config is not present
Question:
Why does the router respond with the startup-config is not present message? Type your answers
here. because the configuration file was not saved to NVRAM. Currently it is only located
in RAM
Part 2: Configure and Verify the Initial Router Configuration To configure parameters on a
router, you may be required to move between various configuration modes. Notice how the
prompt changes as you navigate through the IOS configuration modes.
Step 1: Configure the initial settings on R1.
Note: If you have difficulty remembering the commands, refer to the content for this topic. The
commands are the same as you configured on a switch. Open a configuration window
a. Configure R1 as the hostname.
b. Configure Message of the day text: Unauthorized access is strictly prohibited.
c. Encrypt all plain text passwords.
Use the following passwords:
1) Privileged EXEC, unencrypted: cisco
2) Privileged EXEC, encrypted: itsasecret
3) Console: letmein
Step 2: Verify the initial settings on R1. Open a configuration window
a. Verify the initial settings by viewing the configuration for R1.
Question: What command do you use? Type your answers here. show running-config
b. Exit the current console session until you see the following message: R1 con0 is now available
Press RETURN to get started.
c. Press ENTER; you should see the following message: Unauthorized access is strictly
prohibited. User Access Verification Password:
Why should every router have a message-of-the-day (MOTD) banner? Type your answers here.
Every router should have a banner to warn unauthorized users that access is prohibited.
MOTD Banners can also be used to send messages to network staff
If you are not prompted for a password before reaching the user EXEC prompt, what console
line command did you forget to configure? Type your answers here. login
d. Enter the passwords necessary to return to privileged EXEC mode.
Questions: Why would the enable secret password allow access to the privileged EXEC mode
and the enable password no longer be valid? Type your answers here. The enable secret
password overrides the enable password. If both are configured on the router, you must
enter the enable secret password to enter privileged EXEC mode
If you configure any more passwords on the router, are they displayed in the configuration file as
plain text or in encrypted form? Explain. Type your answers here. Yes. The service password-
encryption command encrypts all current and future passwords

Part 3: Save the Running Configuration File


Step 1: Save the configuration file to NVRAM.
a. You have configured the initial settings for R1. Now back up the running configuration file to
NVRAM to ensure that the changes made are not lost if the system is rebooted or loses power.
Open a configuration window
Questions: What command did you enter to save the configuration to NVRAM? Type your
answers here. Answer:
What is the shortest, unambiguous version of this command? Type your answers here. Answer:
Close a configuration window
Verify that all of the parameters configured are recorded. If not, analyze the output and
determine which commands were not executed or were entered incorrectly. You can also click
Check Results in the instruction window.
Step 2: Optional: Save the startup configuration file to flash. Although you will be learning more
about managing the flash storage in a router in later chapters, you may be interested to know
that, as an added backup procedure, you can save your startup configuration file to flash. By
default, the router still loads the startup configuration from NVRAM, but if NVRAM becomes
corrupt, you can restore the startup configuration by copying it over from flash. Complete the
following steps to save the startup configuration to flash.
Open a configuration window
a. Examine the contents of flash using the show flash command:
R1# show flash
Questions:
How many files are currently stored in flash? Type your answers here. 3
Which of these files would you guess is the IOS image? Type your answers here. c1900-
universalk9-mz.SPA.151-4.M4.bin
Why do you think this file is the IOS image? Type your answers here. Looking for the file
length compared to the others and the .bin at the end of the file name
R1# copy startup-config flash
Destination filename [startup-config]
The router prompts you to store the file in flash using the name in brackets. If the answer is yes,
then press ENTER; if not, type an appropriate name and press ENTER.
b. Use the show flash command to verify the startup configuration file is now stored in flash.

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