AIS AI2524 Specify the Startup Configuration File Task List, Download the Host Configuration File

Chapter 7: Manually Loading System Images

Specify the Startup Configuration File Task List

To specify a startup configuration file, perform either the first two tasks or the third task:

zDownload the Network Configuration File

zDownload the Host Configuration Fil

Download the Network Configuration File

To configure the Cisco IOS software to download a network configu ration file from a server at startup:

1.Enter configuration mode from the terminal. configure terminal

2.Enter the network configuration filename to download a file using TFTP.

boot network tftp filename [ip-address]}

3.Enable the router to automatically load the network file upon re start.

service config

4.To exit configuration mode, press <Ctrl-Z>.

1.Save the configuration file to your startup configuration. On most platforms, this step saves the configuration to NVRAM.

copy running-config startup-config

For Step 2, if you do not specify a network configuration filename, th Cisco IOS software uses the default filename network-confg. If you omit the tftp keyword, the software assumes that you are using TFTP to transfer the file and that the server whose IP address you specify supports TFTP.

You can specify more than one network configuration file. The soft- ware tries them in order until it loads one successfully. This procedur can be useful for keeping files with different configuration information loaded on a network server.

Download the Host Configuration File

To configure the Cisco IOS software to download a host configuration file from a server at startup, complete the following tasks. Step 2 is op- tional. If you do not specify a host configuration filename, the router uses its own name to form a host configuration filename by converting

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