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Navigating A Router/Switch Command-Line Interface: Scenario

This document summarizes a lab covering basic skills for accessing and using the command-line interface on a Cisco router or switch. The objectives are to use CLI help features, describe the differences between user, enable, and config modes, and describe the difference between EXEC commands and configuration commands. The lab has two steps - the first focuses on basic CLI usage, and the second examines different CLI modes and how to move between them.

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Navigating A Router/Switch Command-Line Interface: Scenario

This document summarizes a lab covering basic skills for accessing and using the command-line interface on a Cisco router or switch. The objectives are to use CLI help features, describe the differences between user, enable, and config modes, and describe the difference between EXEC commands and configuration commands. The lab has two steps - the first focuses on basic CLI usage, and the second examines different CLI modes and how to move between them.

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Lab 1

Navigating a Router/Switch
Command-Line Interface
This CCNA Video Mentor (CVM) lab covers the most basic skills for accessing and using the
command-line interface (CLI) on a Cisco router or switch. Many of the small, picky details of how
the CLI works cannot be seen by reading a book; this lab hopes to complete the coverage of those
basics. In particular, the objectives of this lab are as follows:

Use IOS CLI help features

Describe the differences between user, enable, and config modes

Describe the difference between EXEC commands and configuration commands

Move among user, enable, and configuration modes


Scenario
This lab contains two main steps. The first step focuses on the basics of the CLI, and the second step
examines different CLI modes and how to move between them. The video takes the following actions
at the two steps:
Step 1. From the console port, the user logs in to a router and experiments with user EXEC mode.
This step shows how to get command-line help.
Step 2. The user moves among user EXEC mode, privileged (enable) EXEC mode, and configuration
mode. This step demonstrates some commands that might be allowed only in a particular mode.
Initial Configurations
Many labs in the CVIP have meaningful initial configurations. If you use this lab at the suggested
point in your study, you will not yet have seen some of the configurations. However, for completeness,
Example 1-1 shows the initial configuration of router R1 at the beginning of the lab. The parts of R1s
configuration that are not relevant to this lab have been omitted.
Example 1-1 Initial Configuration for R1
hostname R1
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Ending Configurations
This lab ends with the configuration unchanged.
Video Presentation Reference
The video presents figures, tables, and text with short lectures before showing the CLI of the
router. This section simply lists these figures and tables for reference.
Figure 1-1 shows a diagram of the network used in this example.
Figure 1-1 Lab 1 Network Topology
2 CCNA Video Mentor
Console
Fa0/0
S0/1/1
S0/1/0
1
2 3
Because the video is organized into two separate steps, the reference materials have been organ-
ized into two separate sections.
Step 1 Reference
Figure 1-2 Figure for Step 1
Console
Aux
Telnet
User Mode
User EXEC Mode Facts:
First mode seen by users connected from
the console port, aux port, and Telnet.
User can type harmless EXEC commands.
Characterized by a > at the end of the
command prompt.
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Step 2 Reference
Figure 1-3 Figure for Step 2
Lab 1: Navigating a Router/Switch Command-Line Interface 3
Console
Aux
Telnet
User Mode Enable Mode
Config Mode
Enable
Disable
End
or
Ctrl-z
Configure
Table 1-1 Comparing EXEC and Config Commands
EXEC Config
Commands Commands
Mode in which they are used User or enable Config
Cisco IOS Software typically responds with a list of messages Yes No
Command changes the configuration and behavior of router/switch No Yes
Table 1-2 Three Commands That Can Be Used in Different CLI Modes
Command Modes in Which It Works
show ip route User, enable
reload Enable
hostname Config
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