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Configuring Cisco Routers

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by petadove

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I am a novice to Cisco routers who has been given the task of creating users, access-lists and ip pools on a Cisco 2600 router.

I have downloaded some information from the internet but will like any help that someone in this forum can provide me. This is my first time touching a router; hence, my knowledge of the hardware/software is limited (to say the least).

Thank you in advance for any suggestions

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by jschunem

A little more information on what you are trying to do,
Remote connections from the Internet?
Access to the Internet from the Intranet?

by petadove

The entire exercise is a learning experience for me. The aim is to be able to do very basic configuration like setting up users, access list, etc and then be able to attach a firewall and be able to route traffic from the ip address configured in the access-list.

Not sure if I am explaining the process correctly but that is what I understand based on my limited experience with routers/firewalls.

by Former member

People spend weeks in classes learning this stuff. No one here can teach you the intricacies of ACLs or Radius or whatever else it is you're looking for. You need to RTFM! hehe...

Anyways, Let's start with IP addressing: Private or public? BGP Peering or not? CIDRing? Subnet assigned from ARIN? Subnetting the network?

See where I'm getting? You need a good course in the basics of everything involved, it's just not possible to explain it all here. ACLs itself are an involved process: The implicit deny statement, Extended or not, what ports, only Layer 3...etc.

by petadove

Thanks for your candour! I totally agree that this is not something I can learn overnight but my supervisor seems to think so. I am expecting to learn this stuff by the end of October and somehow miraculously become an expert in 2 weeks.

I will continue to research and fiddle but I already know there is no way to master this without formal and adequate training.

Thanks for your help again!

by petadove

The entire exercise is a learning experience for me. The aim is to be able to do very basic configuration like setting up users, access list, etc and then be able to attach a firewall and be able to route traffic from the ip address configured in the access-list.

Not sure if I am explaining the process correctly but that is what I understand based on my limited experience with routers/firewalls.

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