Let’s take a step-by-step walk through configuring the IP address on a Cisco 2514 router. Doing so will aid you in understanding how to configure the IP address on a router.

Critical Information

First off, you need to connect to an un-configured router through the router’s console port using a console cable. The cables I have been receiving lately have been prefabricated, all-in-one cables. However, previous cables that you are tested for on this exam use a nine- or 25-pin serial adapter connected to a rollover cable. Many people believe that a crossover cable and a rollover cable are the same. They are not. A rollover cable has the exact opposite pin-out on the opposite side of the cable.

This means that pin 8 matches to pin 1 on the opposite end, pin 7 to pin 2, and so on. After connecting the cable, configuring a terminal emulator, and turning the power on, you are ready to configure the router. You will get a prompt asking you to do a global configuration. This is a configuration that configures only the router’s basics; it is not tested on the Cisco exam. You can press Ctrl+C to exit this configuration. If you are configuring the router for the first time, press Enter when the password prompt comes up. At the right-pointing carrot sign (>), type enable and press Enter. The Privileged Mode Password prompt appears. Press Enter again. You will then see a pound sign (#). Type config terminal for the global configuration mode, and press Enter. Now you see the Global Configuration prompt. Type interface e0 to select the first Ethernet interface configuration mode. At the interface prompt, follow these instructions:

1. Type ip address 10.1.2.1 255.255.255.0 to set the IP address, and press Enter.
2. Type no shutdown to activate the interface, and press Enter.
3. Type exit to return to global configuration mode.
4. Type exit again to return to the privileged mode, and press Enter.

Follow these instructions to save the configuration:

1. Type copy running-config starting-config and press Enter.
2. Wait for the [OK] surrounded by brackets ([OK]).
To view the configuration, type show running-config to view the configuration. To exit the router, type exit twice.

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