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Router Configuration 101: Setting up the router

Nice article for beginners. If it includes screenshots of router configuration, it would be great.

I like it this way... it helped me understand things on router and I am looking forward to the succeding articles..

It would also be easier if their are screen shot..

This article is interesting for beginners and rusty techos too. thanks for the effort, I will forward it to some friends.
Keep up the good work.

Omoaye Ayodele

Straight to the point. A little more on the type of wire to connect the router to the PC would have been nice. I bought my routers from a "refurbished" shop and no cables came with it. Had to call Cisco and get a pinout for an rj-45. But this article was very helpful along with some of the others.

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s.sakthivel

Hey, don't stop there..... you've just told us how to get to configure it. Not HOW TO configure it

When will part 2 come?

Here is the link to "Router Config 101: Configuring and Securing"
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-5596832.html

And here is "Router Config 101: Connecting the Router to the Internet"
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-5596835.html?tag=sc

Or, go to this article and where it says my name at the top of the article, click on "More from David Davis...". You will see all my articles and there are a number of "101-style" articles you may be interested in.

If you have other article suggestions, I am always on the lookout for them! Just email them my way.

Thanks for reading TechRepublic!
David Davis
Personal Website: http://www.happyrouter.com
Also, checkout my TechRepublic Blog at
http://techrepublic.com.com/5247-6257-0.html

Thank you.

Very usefull stuff

I want to Thank everyone for their comments on this series of articles.

I am always open for suggestions to future article ideas. If you have any please email me.

David Davis
Personal Website: http://www.happyrouter.com
Also, checkout my TechRepublic Blog at
http://techrepublic.com.com/5247-6257-0.html

Hi

waiting for next???

Its nice to see someone pulling up such efforts to give us basics on Cisco Routers......It was a refreshing experience for me going through the basics as I had configured a router way back in the Yr 2000

Now, whoever is going to follow this article is in for a real ride.

ok... now what?

This would be great if it was part 1 of a 200 part series. I will follow up on the next 2 installments. It appears to be helpful to the greenest of the green.

Well, I'm one of those greenest of green when it comes to Cisco routers and can't wait for the upcoming parts.

What is was like to not know everything.

There is nothing wrong with not knowing everything. It is the clowns that run around telling everyone they are a computer god that I laugh at.

As for me, the more I learn about computers the more I realize just how little I know.

As long as the articles state what lvl they are for up front, it is great to have something for everyone.

I'm pretty green too.. but he could've gone more in depth with this installment.

has been to make it so any articles that have any REAL meat are all on the pay side of the site.

The "free" articles have been more and more aimed at attracting novices into the fold and then steer them into the pay.

Maybe someday I will check out the pay site, but who has the time?

And you may have as many breaks as needed, but I had pictured you as more experienced than that? My mistake? Should I apologise for overestimating you? Na, I will continue to give you the benifit of the doubt.

I just know personally people that are real good at what they do, but they couldn't teach a noob if their life depended on it BECAUSE of the like I (mistakenly?) said in the last post about forgetting what it is like to be new to EVERYTHING. It can be really overwhelming. I used to teach at the local community college and now do all "in-house" training, and it is mostly people that can't copy a file to a floppy, let alone know where it is stored if not in the default folder with the other 500 files.

Did not intend to sound condencending towards you in anyway.

And yes, some people need you to start with the "how to plug in" or "this is a mouse, not a foot pedal".

I had specific tasks within the field, but never on a well rounded basis. I've worked with various routers (mostly broadband), but have never had the pleasure of laying it out from scratch.

Keep in mind that I'm only 25, so there's a few in my knowledge. If I come across as "knowing everything"... then it must be my professional manner. Nobody knows everything, but I know what I do... and I do it well - heh - well enough to eat, I guess.

so unless you are mr a$$ kiss, you must be competetent?

Did I say "know everything"? (too lazy to go back and look)

If you like linux you will love cisco. they are fun toys to play with. Download a sim and play with it.

There was a tip list just posted here in a newsletter a few daze back.

I personally know a lot about everything and little about something?

Decent in serveral fields, but not an expert in any of them because I don't get to spend enough time on any one of them. At least I get my five hours sleep every night.

Notice the others that are REAL green all got something out of that article.

That's just me blowing hot air when I see the words "don't take offence" and "I don't mean anything by it".

Phrases like that tweak my pride. Character flaw I guess.

I got my CCNA in 2003, but haven't messed with my routers since then. I forgot my secret enable password, and needed to reset it.
I was surprised myself to realize I had just about forgotten everything, and had trouble dumping my old configuration.
Use it or lose it applies here. :^)

I found this aticle very useful for beginers
Thanks

Since I am new bee for network!! cant waite till next article

Hi. I began a CCNA class a couple of days ago and this is the most I've learned.

can anyone point in the right direction for a router sim?

thx

Boson's NetSim software is the best available. It is so good in fact, that I think that you can upload your config and use it on the same model ios ver. router.

true that.boson has the best router simulator around.it actually has another application, Boson Net Sim where u setup a configuration for a given network.

I finally understand how to config a router but I wish my instructor could have explained it as simple as you have if e had I might have earned my CCNA Certification by now After taking 3 of the cisco CCNA classes I was still having problems understanding the router configuration process I just figured it was beyond my scope well thanks to this article I know better and I can finally set-up and use the cisco router to set-up a web and file server Thanks Again
Dawn.G

While this is written more for the person starting rather than the pro and obviously the equipment is much more than needed for the tyro or home office. I was much appreciative of this simplified approach to setting up the router. I gave the links to my college age daughter to set up her home system.
I am sure this will do much to take the "black box" enigma away from routers and even the wireless routers.
I know many IT supervisors who have avoided using these tools because they did not know what they did or understand their basic function.

Thanks,

Cole

Great information, I was wondering if TechRepublic has info on the Cisco PIX?

Thanks for your post.
There are a few articles available on TechRepublic concerning the Cisco PIX. I will put some links to them, below. Is there something in particular you are looking for?
http://techrepublic.com.com/5138-6240-5596336.html?tag=search
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-1047875.html?tag=search
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6350_11-5031614.html?tag=search
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6350_11-5031612.html?tag=search
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6350_11-1055279.html?tag=search
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6350_11-1052628.html?tag=search

Why not try Cisco.com?!

very useful!!

It is a nice and very much helping article to know the basic idea, of how to install a router..

manu_sha009@yahoo.com

that was an easy one there only that it just wet our appetti and left us longing for the main.Lookin forward to read the next steps. Thanks

I am waiting for your basic configuration tips

this is really a good job.hoping to get the full details soon

i want a practices software in cisco divec pix firwale, router, switches and pc

Repeating paragraphs! Is it just me or do the paragraphs in this article repeat themselves?

Very valubal Info

please i will like to work on a practical configuration of a router.

Nice article.....keep it up.

how to configur telnet in cisco router 2611

for sure cisco class is important to every one,it gives more datails how to configure all type of cisco router even if your bigginers.thanks

i want to know the configuration to maipu router
satyam