TERMINAL CONTROLS:
- Config# terminal editing – allows for enhanced editing commands
- Config# terminal monitor – shows output on telnet session
- Config# terminal ip netmask-format hexadecimal|bit-count|decimal – changes the format of subnet masks
HOST NAME:
- Config# hostname ROUTER_NAME
BANNER:
- Config# banner motd # TYPE MESSAGE HERE # – # can be substituted for any character, must start and finish the message
DESCRIPTIONS:
- Config# description THIS IS THE SOUTH ROUTER – can be entered at the Config-if level
CLOCK:
- Config# clock timezone Central -6
# clock set hh:mm:ss dd month yyyy – Example: clock set 14:35:00 25 August 2003CHANGING THE REGISTER:
- Config# config-register 0x2100 – ROM Monitor Mode
- Config# config-register 0x2101 – ROM boot
- Config# config-register 0x2102 – Boot from NVRAM
BOOT SYSTEM:
- Config# boot system tftp FILENAME SERVER_IP – Example: boot system tftp 2600_ios.bin 192.168.14.2
- Config# boot system ROM
- Config# boot system flash – Then – Config# reload
CDP:
- Config# cdp run – Turns CDP on
- Config# cdp holdtime 180 – Sets the time that a device remains. Default is 180
- Config# cdp timer 30 – Sets the update timer.The default is 60
- Config# int Ethernet 0
- Config-if# cdp enable – Enables cdp on the interface
- Config-if# no cdp enable – Disables CDP on the interface
- Config# no cdp run – Turns CDP off
HOST TABLE:
- Config# ip host ROUTER_NAME INT_Address – Example: ip host lab-a 192.168.5.1
-or- - Config# ip host RTR_NAME INT_ADD1 INT_ADD2 INT_ADD3 – Example: ip host lab-a 192.168.5.1 205.23.4.2 199.2.3.2 – (for e0, s0, s1)
DOMAIN NAME SERVICES:
- Config# ip domain-lookup – Tell router to lookup domain names
- Config# ip name-server 122.22.2.2 – Location of DNS server
- Config# ip domain-name cisco.com – Domain to append to end of names
CLEARING COUNTERS:
- # clear interface Ethernet 0 – Clears counters on the specified interface
- # clear counters – Clears all interface counters
- # clear cdp counters – Clears CDP counters