Introduction to Cisco Router Configuration
MODULE 4 - Wide-Area Networking
Chapter 16 - Introduction to Serial Connections
Objectives
Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to:
- Describe and sitringuish the types and attributes of
serial communication on WANs.
- Describe how WAN communication works.
- Identify Point-to-Point Protocol operations to
encapsulate WAN data on Cisco routers.
Summary
- Using the router
- Log in with user password.
- Enter privileged mode with enable password.
- Disable or quit.
- Advanced help features
- Command completion and prompting.
- Syntax checking.
- Advanced editing features
- Automatic line scrolling.
- Cursor controls.
- History buffer with command recall.
- Copy and paste using most laptop computers.
Lab: Using the User Interface
Objective: Log in to a router in both user and
privileged modes.
Objective: Use the context-sensitive help facility.
Objective: Use the command history and editing features.
Objective: Log out of the router.
Step
- Press Return to begin.
Enter user mode with the cisco password.
- Enter the help command (?) at the
Router> prompt.
What is on the seventh line in the list?
Press space bar. What does this do?
- Enter privileged mode by using the enable
command and the san-fran enable
password.
- Enter the help command (?) at the
Router# prompt.
What is on the eighth line in the list?
Press Return a few times. What does
this do?
Enter q. What does this do?
- Enter the character string sh? at the
Router# prompt.
- Enter the sho command at the Router#
prompt and press the tab key. Then enter
a space followed by the help command (?).
- Enter the show running-config command at
the Router# prompt.
(Use write term with Cisco IOS Release
10.3 and earlier.)
This is the active configuration file.
When you see the "--More--" prompt, press Return
a few times. When you see "--More--" again,
press the space bar. What does this
do?
Enter q. What does this do?
- Type an exclamation point (!) to
indicate that you will be entering a comment. Enter a
comment sentence. Refer to the editing commands and
practice using the key combinations to move your cursor
within the comment sentence.
- Press Ctrl-P (or press the Up arrow). What
does this do?
If you are using a workstation as a console, use copy (or
cut) and paste to reuse a previous command.
- Enter exit at the Router# prompt. What
does this do?
Chapter 17 - The
Objectives
Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to perform
the following tasks:
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