Router Configuration and Modes

Flashcards based on a lecture about router configuration, covering different modes (user, privilege, configuration terminal, configuration interface), setting up IP addresses, subnet masks, default gateways, and connecting routers using serial ports.

User Mode

Identified by 'Router>' prompt; the first mode in router configuration.

Enable

The command used in user mode to move to privilege mode.

Privilege Mode

Identified by 'Router#' prompt; allows executing 'show' commands.

Config T

The command used in privilege mode to enter configuration mode: config t.

Configuration Terminal

Used to configure specific interfaces, such as fast Ethernet or serial ports.

IP Address

Command used to assign an IP address and subnet mask to an interface.

No Shut

Command used to activate an interface that is in a shutdown state.

Default Gateway

The IP address of the router's interface, used by computers on the network to send traffic outside the local network.

GUI Method

Tool inside the router to configure the router graphically.

CLI

A command-line interface used to configure and manage the router.

Initial Configuration Dialog Box

A question asked when a router starts, concerning initial configuration.

Question Mark

Help command to view all the possible commands that could be run in the current mode.

Shut Position

The default state of all router interfaces, which must be changed to 'no shut' to activate the interface.

Serial Ports

A modular router requires these to connect to a WAN link.

Router

Devices that connect different networks.