AI2524 Router Card User’s Manual
Page 7-20 August 1997
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the name to all lowercase letters, removing all domain information,
and appending -confg. If no host name information is available, the
software uses the default host configuration filename router-confg.
1. Enter configuration mode from the terminal.
configure terminal
2. Optionally, enter the host configuration f il ename to be down-
loaded.
boot host {tftp
filename
[
ip-address
]}
3. Enable the device to automatically load the host file upon restart.
service config
4. To exit configuration mode, pres s <Ct r l-Z>.
5. Save the configuration file to your start up configuration. This step
saves the configuration to NVRAM.
copy running-config startup-config
6. Reset the router with the new configuration information.
reload
You can specify more than one host configuration file. The Cisco IOS
software tries them in order until it loads one successfully. This proce-
dure can be useful for keeping files with different configuration infor-
mation loaded on a network server.
In this example, a router is configured to boot from the host configu-
ration file hostfile1 and from the network configuration file
networkfile1:
Router1# configure terminal
Router1(config)# boot host hostfile1
Router1(config)# boot network networkfile1
Router1(config)# service config
^Z
Router1# copy running-config startup-config