Cisco Systems Cisco 12008 manual Configuring the Cisco

Configuring the Cisco 12008

The system asks you if you want to continue with the configuration dialog. If you answer yes, the system proceeds with the interactive script for the setup facility. If you answer no, the system exits from the setup facility. In this case, you must issue configuration commands at the console terminal to configure the system and network interface parameters.

You need not configure the network interfaces immediately; however, you cannot connect to a network until you configure the interfaces for operation in your networking environment. To do this, refer to the following section entitled “Configuring the Cisco 12008.”

Configuring the Cisco 12008

The information in this section applies only if the system does not boot automatically on startup from a specified default Cisco IOS software image.

The Cisco 12008 is administered by means of a command language interpreter called the EXEC. You must boot the router and log in to the system before you can issue commands to the EXEC.

For security purposes in issuing commands, the EXEC has two levels of access:

•User EXEC mode—On startup of the Cisco IOS software, the system presents the user EXEC mode prompt:

Router>

•Privileged EXEC mode—If you enter an enable secret password (which must first have been saved in memory) at the user EXEC mode prompt, the system changes to the privileged EXEC mode prompt (Router#), as indicated below:

Router> enable

password: xxxxxxxxx

Router#

For information about using passwords, refer to Step 5 and Step 6 in the section entitled “Configuring Global Parameters.”

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