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Cisco 7204 Installation and Configuration Guide
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Performing a Basic Configuration of the
Cisco 7204
This chapter describes how to perform a basic configuration for your Cisco 7204. The chapter contains
the following sections:
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Using the Enable Secret and the Enable Password, page 4-1
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Configuring the Cisco 7204, page 4-2
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Implementing Other Configuration Tasks, page 4-11
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Chapter 4, “What Do I Do Now?”
This chapter guides you through a basic Cisco 7204 configuration, which is sufficient for you to access
your network. Complex configuration procedures are beyond the scope of this publication and can be
found in the configuration publications listed in the
“Related Documentation” section on page xiii
” in
the Preface.
To configure the Cisco 7204 from a console, you need to connect a terminal to the router’s console port.
Configuration requires access to the console port on the router’s I/O controller.
Using the Enable Secret and the Enable Password
The Cisco 7204 is administered using the Cisco command interpreter, called the EXEC. You must boot
and log in to the router before you can enter an EXEC command. For security purposes the EXEC has
two levels of access to commands, user EXEC mode and privileged EXEC mode.
The commands available at the user level are a subset of those available at the privileged level. Because
many privileged-level EXEC commands are used to set operating parameters, you should
password-protect these commands to prevent unauthorized use.
There are two commands you can use to set the password protection:
•
enable secret password (which is a very secure, encrypted password).
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enable password (which is a less secure, or nonencrypted, password).
You must enter the correct password to gain access to privileged-level commands. The passwords should
be different for maximum security. If you enter the same password for both during the setup script, the
system will accept it, but you will receive a warning message indicating that you should enter a different
password.
