Very Basic Cisco Router or switch Configuration Commands
How to Configure a Router Hostname
To configure a name for router, use hostname command from Global Configuration mode.
Router>enable Router#configure terminal Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. Router(config)#hostname f5skills.com.R1 f5skills.com.R1(config)#exit f5skills.com.R1#
How to Configure a MOTD Banner for Router
Users will be presented with a MOTD (Message of the DAY) banner every time they attempt a connection via the console port, auxiliary port, or a telnet session to router. Use the following commands to configure a MOTD message. Here the "#" character is known as a delimiting character. The banner message should be sorrounded by delimiting character and the message should not contain the delimiting character.
f5skills.com.R1>enable f5skills.com.R1#configure terminal f5skills.com.R1(config)#banner motd #
***************************************************************
PROPERTY OF F5SKILLS.COM
Access is restricted to authorized users only.
Unauthorized access is a violation of state and federal,
civil and criminal laws.
***************************************************************
# f5skills.com.R1(config)#exit f5skills.com.R1#
How to enable DNS lookup
To configure a DNS server for your router, follow these steps.
f5skills.com.R1>enable f5skills.com.R1#configure terminal f5skills.com.R1(config)#ip name-server 10.100.156.10 f5skills.com.R1(config)#exit f5skills.com.R1#
How to turn off the automatic name resolution
The router is set by default to try to resolve any word that is not a command to a DNS server at address limited broadcast IP Address 255.255.255.255. We can turn off this by using the following command.
f5skills.com.R1>enable f5skills.com.R1#configure terminal Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. f5skills.com.R1(config)#no ip domain-lookup f5skills.com.R1(config)#exit f5skills.com.R1#
Following command assigns a host name to an IP address. Once this is completed, we can use the configured host name for telnet or ping.
f5skills.com.R1>enable f5skills.com.R1#configure terminal Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. f5skills.com.R1(config)#ip host PC1 10.100.156.10 f5skills.com.R1(config)#exit f5skills.com.R1#
How to Turn on synchronous logging
If the router sends a message to the console while you're entering a command, by default the router will interrupt your work to show the message.
If you want the information sent to console not interrupt the command you are typing, turn on synchronous logging.
f5skills.com.R1>enable f5skills.com.R1#configure terminal Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. f5skills.com.R1(config)#line console 0 f5skills.com.R1(config-line)#logging synchronous f5skills.com.R1(config-line)#exit f5skills.com.R1(config)#exit f5skills.com.R1#
How to configure an inactivity time-out for automatic log-off
Sets time limit when console automatically logs off. Set to 0 0 (minutes seconds) means console never logs off.
f5skills.com.R1>enable f5skills.com.R1#configure terminal Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. f5skills.com.R1(config)#line console 0 f5skills.com.R1(config-line)#exec-timeout 3 0 f5skills.com.R1(config-line)#exit f5skills.com.R1(config)#exit f5skills.com.R1#
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