Chapter 4 Initial Configuration

Verifying Network Connectivity

The following display shows sample output for the ping command when you ping the IP hostname donald:

Router# ping donald

Type escape sequence to abort.

Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 192.168.7.27, timeout is 2 seconds:

!!!!!

Success rate is 100 percent, round-trip min/avg/max = 1/3/4 ms

Saving Your Router Configuration

This section describes how to avoid losing your configuration at the next system reload or power cycle by saving the running configuration to the startup configuration in NVRAM. The NVRAM provides 256KB of storage on the router.

SUMMARY STEPS

1.enable

2.copy running-config startup-config

DETAILED STEPS

 

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

 

 

enable

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

 

 

Enter your password if prompted.

 

Example:

 

 

Router> enable

 

Step 2

 

 

copy running-config startup-config

Saves the running configuration to the startup

 

 

configuration.

 

Example:

 

 

Router# copy running-config startup-config

 

 

 

 

Saving Backup Copies of Configuration and System Image

To aid file recovery and minimize downtime in case of file corruption, we recommend that you save backup copies of the startup configuration file and the Cisco IOS-XE software system image file on a server.

 

 

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