Configuring a Router

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The following checklist is meant to be a guide to setting up a Cisco router in general.

This guide is from the CCNA Command Quick reference book, published by Cisco Press.
ISBN: 1-58713-159-5

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Whenever you are designing a network, follow these guidelines to ensure that you have considered all of the pertinent issues.


1.  Create an IP plan from your network diagram
a.  Subnetting
b.  VLSM

2.  Cable the equipment as you have indicated in your diagram.

3. Basic router configuration.
a.   Host Names
b.   Passwords
i)    Secret
ii)   Console
iii)  Terminal - vty
iv)  Auxiliary
c.  Turn off DNS so spelling mistakes in your commands do not slow you down (how do I do this?)
d.  MOTD banners

4. Configure your interfaces
a.  Addresses
b.  Masks
c.  Clock Rates (for serial DCE interfaces)
d.  Descriptions

5.  IP host name tables for remote access.

6. Configure Routing
a.  Static
b.  Default
c.  Dynamic - Pick the routing protocol that best suits the needs of the network
i)    RIP
ii)   RIP v2
iii)  IGRP
iv)  OSPF
v)   EIGRP

7. Configure ACLs (Access Control Lists).
a.  Standard
b.  Extended
c.  Named

8. Change WAN encapsulation type
a.  PPP
i)  Authentication: CHAP
ii)  Authentication: PAP
b.  HDLC, if returning to default

9.  Advanced IP configuration topics.
a.  NAT/ PAT
b.  DHCP

10.  Save your configuration
a.  Locally
b. Remote