Darius Humphrey IT320 Homework 2
Page 24 1. Attach a rollover cable to the PC’s COM port and then to either the Console or AUX port on the router. The console port is preferred because messages from the router are logged on this line. The AUX port is used for remote access and can also be used if the console port is damaged. You can also access the CLI through Telnet, but the Telnet client must have access to the router. 2. User EXEC mode allows on a limited number of basic monitoring commands and is often referred to as view-only mode. The user EXEC lever does not allow commands that might change the configuration of the router. It is identified by the > prompt. The privileged EXEC mode provides access to all router commands and this mode can be configured to require a password. It can also be configured to require a user ID. Configuration and management commands require the network administrator to beat the privileged EXEC level. The privileged EXEC mode is identified by the # prompt. 3. The platform on which the image runs
The special features supported in the image
Where the image runs and whether it has been zipped or compressed 4. ROMMON is not IOS; therefore it does not accept the IOS commands. It cannot route IP packets. The ROM_MON software is stored in a Rom chip instead of flash, so it should always be available even if some other network engineer made a mistake and erased all the contents of flash memory. Password recovery is the most popular reason for a network engineer to use ROMMON, the boot ROM software resides in the ROM chips which means, that this software can be loaded even if no working IOS exits in flash memory. However, unlike ROMMON, the boot Rom software is an IOS image although a basic one. The entire purpose of this basic IOS is to allow an engineer to load new IOS images into flash when the image cannot be loaded because of other issues. There is the IOS operating environment in which the router has a fully functional set of features and can be configured for normal operations.

Mode | Access Method | Prompt | Exit Method | About this mode | RouterConfiguration | Enter your router command followed by the appropriate keyword while in global configuration mode | 1600 (configure-router)# | Enter the end command to exit global configuration. Enter the exit command to or press ctrl-z to exit privileged mode. | Used to configure an ip routing protocol | Line configuration | Specify a line with the line vty command while in global configuration mode | 1600 (configure-router)# | To exit global configuration mode enter the exit command. To exit privileged EXEC mode enter the end command or press ctrl-z. | Used to configure parameters for the terminal |