Applying Basic config to a Router (Exam Topic 4-A)

Applying a config to a router is similar to that of a switch.

First lets config a host-name, and disable time out on console (my personal preference for console) We will also set logging synchronous
Note: syntax for exec timeout exec-timeout <minutes> [seconds]

Next we will configure VTY (telnet)
We will set the password to cisco and require login

Next we will set the enable secret, encrypt all plain word passwords
First we see the passwords are plain text

Now we will set the enable password and encryption 

Once we've made that changes we can see the password is encrypted. Secret will always be encrypted regardless if the service password was used. 

 
Now we will config fas 0/0. We will be bringing the interface up and applying an IP. This IP will be used to manage the router, it will also be used as the default gateway for your network.

Now lets have some fun with banners. There are three types of banners that can be set MOD, login, and exec. All self explanatory MOD you will see first prior to logging on to the router, Login you will see at first login, exec you will see when entering exec
We will just set the exec login in this example steps are the same for each option
Note: you can use any delimiter you like I will be using a $ in my example

Now lets take a look at how our banner will display while entering exec mode

Now lets save all of our changes there are two options you can do a copy or a write. Doing a write memory requires less key strokes so I usually do a wr mem