Cisco Router Configuration Commands

You should have to know the basic configuration of Cisco router with the Cisco IOS configuration
commands and the operational Cisco router commands to surely execute the performance of any
internetwork.

Here are some basic cisco router configuration commands along with operation commands of routers:

• IP address [address][subnet mask]: This command is used to configure the ip address of the
specific interface of the cisco router

• Hostname [name]: This command is used to assign a hostname to the cisco router

• Line vty 0 15: This command is used to enter in the line vty configuration mode of the cisco
router

• Line con 0: This command is used to enter line console configuration mode of the cisco
router

• Line aux 0: This command is used to enter line auxiliary configuration mode of the cisco
router

• Login: This command tells to ask for the password of a line of the cisco router

• Password [password]: This command is used to set the password of a line of the cisco router

• Enable password [password]: This command is used to set the password to enter in the
privileged exec mode of the cisco router

• Enable secret [password]: This command is used to set the encrypted password to enter in
the privileged exec mode of the cisco router

• Configure terminal: This command is used to enter in the global configuration mode of the
cisco router

• Show interfaes serial 0: This command displays the status of specific interface of the cisco
router

• Show interfaces: This command displays complete information about all the interfaces in the
cisco router

• Show ip interface brief: This command displays the brief ip configuration of all the interfaces
of cisco router

• Show running-config: This command displays the status of RAM, the current configuration
of the cisco router

• Show ip route: This command displays the IP routing table of the cisco router

• Show startup-config: This command displays the status of NVRAM, the saved configuration
of cisco router

• Show version: This command displays the hardware and software status of the cisco router

• Show flash: This command displays the files and directories reside in the flash of the cisco
router
• Show history: This command displays the last ten commands that were performed in the
cisco router

• Erase startup-config: This command is used to erase the saved configuration of cisco
router.