LAB 1 – BASIC ROUTER CONFIGURATION

1. In this lab, you will get practice with basic configuration and show commands on the Cisco
router.
2. Select Router1 from the tool bar. Press enter to get to the user prompt

3. The greater-than symbol ( >) in the prompt indicates you are in user mode. Type ? to see a
list of commands that can be entered in user mode.

4. Type enable to get into privileged mode. The pound sign (#) indicates you are now in
privileged mode.

5. Type ? to see a list of commands that can be entered in privileged mode. Notice that there
are more commands available in privileged mode than are available in user mode. Configure and
reload are two such commands that can only be issued in privileged mode.

6. Exit privileged mode by typing disable.

7. Re-enter privileged mode and type configure terminal to get into configuration mode

8. Configure a hostname of ‘router1’ (without the quote marks). Notice how the prompt
changes.

9. In global configuration mode on router1, type enable ?. This will show valid parameters that
can be entered with the enable command. Configure an enable password of ‘ccnalab’ that will
not be encrypted when viewing the router configuration file and an enable password of ’cisco’
that will be encrypted.

a. Question: when both encrypted and unencrypted enable passwords are configured, which
one is used?

10. Configure an IP address for the Ethernet0 interface on router1 (192.168.1.1/28)

Activate the interface – it is currently in ‘shutdown’ mode. You should see a message that the
interface has now come up.

11. Configure an IP address for router1’s Serial0 interface (10.1.1.1/24) and activate the
interface.
12. Exit configuration mode by keying ctrl-z . This will bring you back to the privileged mode
prompt. You could also accomplish the same thing by keying exit twice.

13. Type logout to exit the command line interface.

14. Press the enter key to get back into the user mode prompt and then type enable to get into
privileged mode.

15. Display a summary of all interfaces by typing: ?

16. Display detailed information on each interface by typing: ?

17. Display the active configuration in DRAM by typing: ?

18. Display the saved configuration in NVRAM by typing show startup-config.

a. Question: does anything exist in NVRAM? If not, why not?

19. Save the running (active) configuration to NVRAM by typing: ?

20. Now display the contents of NVRAM again. This time, you should see the active
configuration saved in NVRAM.

21. Issue the show version command and answer these questions:
a. Question: What IOS release is running on router1?
b. Question: What are the contents of the configuration register?

22. Issue the command to show which Layer 3 protocols are currently running on the router.
a. Question: which protocols are currently running on the router?

23. Select router2 from the toolbar on top. Press enter and get into user mode. From there go
into privileged mode.

24. Configure a hostname of ‘router2’ and configure an enable secret password of ‘cisco’ for
router2.
25. Configure an IP address for ethernet0 on router2 and activate the interface (IP :
192.168.2.1/28).

26. Configure an IP address for router2’s Serial0 interface (10.1.1.2/24) and activate the
interface.

27. Display the summary status of all interfaces. Remember to get out of configuration mode
first before issuing any show commands.
a. Question: what status should interface E0/0 show if it is fully activated?
b. Question: what status would E0/0 show if it was in ‘shutdown’ mode?

28. Try to ping router1’s Ethernet address from router2.

a. Question: Were you successful? If not, why ?

29. Try to ping each side from other side,

a. Question: Were you successful? If not, why ?