Packet Tracer - Configure Initial Router Settings

Objectives

Part 1: Verify the Default Router Configuration

Part 2: Configure and Verify the Initial Router Configuration

Part 3: Save the Running Configuration File

Background
In this activity, you will perform basic router configuration tasks. You will secure access to the CLI and
console port using encrypted and plain-text passwords. You will also configure messages for users who
are logging into the router. These banners warn unauthorized users that access is prohibited. Finally, you
will verify and save your running configuration.

Instructions

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 ​PCA​ and select ​RS 232​.

c. Click ​R1​ and select ​Console​.

d. Click ​PCA​ > ​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?

 Router

Type your answers here.

How many Fast Ethernet interfaces does the Router have?

4
Type your answers here.

How many Gigabit Ethernet interfaces does the Router have?

2
Type your answers here.

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How many Serial interfaces does the router have?

2
Type your answers here.

What is the range of values shown for the vty lines?

0-4
Type your answers here.

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?
because we didn’t make any changes in configurations
Type your answers here.
Close a configuration window

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?

show running-config
Type your answers here.

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:

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Questions:

Why should every router have a message-of-the-day (MOTD) banner?

To prevent unauthorized access

Type your answers here.

If you are not prompted for a password before reaching the user EXEC prompt, what console line
command did you forget to configure?
login
Type your answers here.

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?
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.
Type your answers here.

If you configure any more passwords on the router, are they displayed in the configuration file as
plain text or in encrypted form? Explain.
The service password-encryption command encrypts all current and future passwords.
Type your answers here.
Close a configuration window

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?

copy running-config startup-config
Type your answers here.

What is the shortest, unambiguous version of this command?

copy run start
Type your answers here.

Type your answers here.

Close a configuration windowVerify 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?

3
Type your answers here.

Which of these files would you guess is the IOS image?

c1900-universalk9-mz.SPA.151-4.M4.bin
Type your answers here.

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Why do you think this file is the IOS image?

from filename extension that is a .bin file
Type your answers here.

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.
Close a configuration window
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