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Air University: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering LAB TITLE: Router Administrative Function

This lab exercise aims to familiarize students with router administrative functions such as configuration modes, hostnames, banners, passwords, and interface descriptions. The student is asked to connect a router to a PC using Packet Tracer and configure the router by changing the hostname, setting a banner that appears on login, and adding interfaces. The objectives are to learn how to connect and configure a router, understand different configuration modes, and practice important administrative tasks like setting hostnames, banners, and passwords.

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Air University: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering LAB TITLE: Router Administrative Function

This lab exercise aims to familiarize students with router administrative functions such as configuration modes, hostnames, banners, passwords, and interface descriptions. The student is asked to connect a router to a PC using Packet Tracer and configure the router by changing the hostname, setting a banner that appears on login, and adding interfaces. The objectives are to learn how to connect and configure a router, understand different configuration modes, and practice important administrative tasks like setting hostnames, banners, and passwords.

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AIR UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER


ENGINEERING
LAB TITLE: Router Administrative Function

Student Name: M. Hamza Amin Reg.No: 191862

Objective: This lab exercise is designed for understanding cisco router advanced
configuration sand Administrative Functions.

LAB ASSESSMENT:

Excellent Good Average Satisfactory Unsatisfactory


Attributes
(5) (4) (3) (2) (1)
Ability to Conduct
Experiment
Ability to assimilate the
results
Effective use of lab
equipment and follows
the lab safety rules

Total Marks: Obtained Marks:

LAB REPORT ASSESSMENT:


Excellent Good Average Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
Attributes
(5) (4) (3) (2) (1)

Data presentation

Experimental results

Conclusion

Total Marks: Obtained Marks:

Date: Signature:
COMPUTER NETWORKING

LAB#05
NAME: M. HAMZA AMIN
IDNO: 191862
CLASS: BCE 4A
SUBMITTED TO: ENG. MUHAMMAD UZAIR
LAB#05
ROUTER ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTION
OBJECTIVE:
 Familiarization with Routers
 To learn how to connect a router for configuration
 To learn about the different Configuration modes of Routers

EQUIPMENT
• Computer
• Packet Tracer (version 5 or higher)

INTRODUCTION:
Router Administrative Functions:
Even though this section isn’t critical to making a router or switch work on a network, it’s still
really important; in it, I’m going to lead you through configuring commands that will help you
administrate your network.
The administrative functions that you can configure on a router and switch are
 Hostnames
 Banners
 Password
 Interface descriptions

Hostnames
You can set the identity of the router with the hostname command. This is only locally
significant, which means that it has no bearing on how the router performs name lookups or how
the router works on the internetwork. Here’s an example:
Router#config t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.

Router(config)#hostname Todd
Todd(config)#hostname Atlanta
Atlanta(config)#
Even though it’s pretty tempting to configure the hostname after your own name, it’s definitely a
better idea to name the router something pertinent to the location. This is because giving it a
hostname that’s somehow relevant to where the device actually lives will make finding it a
whole lot easier. And it also helps you confirm that you are, indeed, configuring the right device.

Banners
A banner is more than just a little cool—one very good reason for having a banner is to give any
and all who dare attempt to telnet or dial into your internetwork a little security notice. And you
can create a banner to give anyone who shows up on the router exactly the information you want
them to have. Make sure you’re familiar with these four available banner types: exec process
creation banner, incoming terminal line banner, login banner, and message of the day banner (all
illustrated in the code below):
Router(config)#banner ?
LINE c banner-text c, where 'c' is a delimiting character exec Set EXEC process creation banner
incoming Set incoming terminal line banner login Set login banner motd Set Message of the Day
banner Message of the day (MOTD) is the most extensively used banner. It gives a message to
every person dialing into or connecting to the router via Telnet or auxiliary port, or even through
a console port as seen here:
Router(config)#banner motd ?
LINE c banner-text c, where 'c' is a delimiting character
Router(config)#banner motd #
Enter TEXT message. End with the character '#'.
$ Acme.com network, then you must disconnect immediately.
#Router(config)#^Z
Router#00:25:12: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by console
Router#exit
Router con0 is now available Press RETURN to get started.
If you are not authorized to be in Acme.com network, then you must disconnect
immediately.
LAB TASKS:
Procedure:
 Open Packet Tracer 5 from Desktop or Start Menu.
 For lab task 1, click on End Devices in lower end window and place one PC on main
window.
 Now click on Network Devices and then click on router 1841 and place it on main
window.
 As router with PC configuration needs a console wire with RS-232. So, connect a router
with PC by using a console wire.

 Now I go on terminal mode of PC and give some command and change the hostname
As shown below.
 Now we go into the physical mode of router and first we off the router and then we on the
router to change the hostname from BCE_4A to router

 Now we start it again and add extra command show running startup-config now if we on
and off router our hostname is not changed.

We see that our hostname is not changed now.


Now we want to add some interface on router for that we go physical mode of router and
add non volatile kit on router.

 Now we see how to set password

Now we set banner just give message through interface and get the same message on
router.
In lab task:
CONCLUSION:

In this lab we have learnt what is difference between start-up and running configuration and how
to copy running configuration into startup configuration. After this we see other administrative
features of switch like changing host name, setting password, setting banner ,setting secret
password

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