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After you have played a little with some basic commands on your Cisco router you probably want to take it to the next level and connect it to a network so the real fun can begin! Now to be able to TELENT into the router or even just PING it you have to configure at least one of the interfaces with an IP address. Preferably the one you want to plug the cable into…

One of the first things you want to configure on a router or a switch is the hostname. Although it is mainly important to us administrators -so we can identify our devices easier-, the hostname can be used to authenticate one router to another as well, but I’ll talk about that in another tutorial.