Wednesday, July 22, 2009

CCNA 5.3 Managing Configuration Register

  • All Cisco routers have a 16-bit software register (Configuration) in NVRAM
  • Configuration register loads IOS from flash memory and startup-config file from NVRAM
  • Default configuration setting on Cisco router is 0x2102
  • 0x means that the digits that follow are in hexadecimal
  • Software configuration meaning:
  • Boot Field:
  • Show version command can be used to check current value of configuration register
  • Configuration register value can be changed to modify how the router boots and runs
  • Config-register command can be used to change config register value
  • To recover a router password, user have to turn on bit 6 (0x2142) of configuration register to ignore the NVRAM contents (start-up config)
  • Ctrl +Break key is used to interrupt boot sequence and enter ROM monitor mode
  • I command is used to reset the router
  • boot system command allows user to tell router which file to boot from flash memory
  • Cisco's suggested IOS backup routine: flash, TFTP host, ROM

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