General Cisco Settings
Written by vaheeD on December 29, 2012
Hostname
configure terminal hostname SW1 end
Enable secret password
configure terminal enable secret 123456 end
Telnet password
configure terminal line vty 0 4 password 123456 login line vty 5 15 password 123456 login end
Console password
configure terminal line console 0 password 123456 login end
Encrypt all passwords
configure terminal service password-encryption end
Disable console EXEC timeout
configure terminal line console 0 exec-timeout 0 0 end
Disable console logging
configure terminal no logging console end
“%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/network-confg (Timed out)” Error Message Prevention
configure terminal no service config end
Prevent “Translating…. domain server (255.255.255.255)” Messages after an Invalid Command
- First method: Disabling automatic connection with a hostname in command line
configure terminal line console 0 transport preferred none line vty 0 4 transport preferred none line vty 5 15 transport preferred none end
- Second method: Disabling ip domian lookup
configure terminal no ip domain-lookup end
Keyboard shotcuts
- [Ctrl-A] : Moves to the start of a line
- [Ctrl-E] : Moves to the end of a line
- [Ctrl-D] : Deletes the character at the cursor
- [Ctrl-K] : Deletes all characters from the cursor to the end of the line
- [Ctrl-U] : Deletes all characters from the cursor to the beginning of the line
- [Ctrl-W] : Deletes the word to the left of the cursor