Cisco Systems RSP7000 instruction

Installation Prerequisites

Downloading (Retrieving) the Conﬁguration File

After you install the new RSP7000, you can retrieve the saved conﬁguration and copy it to NVRAM. To retrieve the conﬁguration, enter conﬁguration mode and specify that you will conﬁgure the router from the network. The system prompts you for a host name and address, the name of the conﬁguration ﬁle stored on the host, and conﬁrmation to reboot using the remote ﬁle.

You can access the router through a console terminal attached directly to the RSP7000 console port, or you can conﬁgure an interface port and Telnet to the router from a remote terminal.

Follow these steps to download (retrieve) the currently running conﬁguration from a remote host:

Step 1 On the console terminal, the system prompt should display a pound sign (#) to indicate the privileged level of the EXEC command interpreter. If it does not, follow the steps in the section “Using the EXEC Command Interpreter” on page 13 to enable the privileged level.

Note Until you retrieve the previous conﬁguration, the router will be running from the default conﬁguration in NVRAM. Therefore, any passwords that were conﬁgured on the previous system will not be valid until you retrieve the conﬁguration.

Step 2 Use the ping command to verify the connection between the router and the remote host. (See the section “Using the Ping Command” on page 13.)

Step 3 At the system prompt, issue the conﬁgure network (or copy tftp startup-conﬁg ) command and press Return to enter the conﬁguration mode and specify that you will conﬁgure the system from a network device (instead of from the console terminal, which is the default).

Router# configure network

Step 4 The system will ask you to select a host or network conﬁguration ﬁle. The default is host; press Return to accept the default.

Host or network configuration file [host]?

Step 5 The system prompts you for the interface processor address of the host. Enter the interface processor address or name of the remote host (the remote ﬁle server to which you uploaded the conﬁguration ﬁle).

IP address of remote host [255.255.255.255]? 1.1.1.1

Step 6 The system prompts you for the name of the conﬁguration ﬁle. When uploading the ﬁle, the default is to use the name of the router with the sufﬁx -confg(router-confgin the following example). If you speciﬁed a different ﬁlename when you uploaded the conﬁguration, enter the ﬁlename; otherwise, press Return to accept the default.

Name of configuration file [router-confg]?

167000 Series Route Switch Processor (RSP7000) Installation and Conﬁguration in the Cisco 7000 Series Routers