I have a CCNA lab at home complete with 3 Cisco 1841 routers, a 2960 switch, a 3550 switch, and a 3560 switch. I am looking for an easy way to upload certain configurations on these devices when needed.
I don't like leaving my lab online all day, so some of the configuration changes I have to make every day can get a bit tedious. For example, it took me about a week to review a chapter on OSPF. Every day I would have to re-setup the OSPF and ip configurations on all 3 routers. And sometimes this is just simply to see the output of a certain show command, or something stupid like that.
So this leaves me with 3 options as far as I see it:
1. Save the configs to the start-up config, and then just use the
erase startup-config command at the end of this chapter.
a. The only thing that I don't like about this idea is that certain settings do not seem to be saved into the Startup-config. For example, when I did this on some of my switches all of the VLAN settings seemed to keep. I believe they are stored in the flash, so I could clear them if I wanted to. Are there any other configurations that I have to worry about saving into an unexpected location?
2. Use a TFTP server on my computer to save these configs, and then just use the
copy tftp running-config to bring back my configurations from the previous day.
a. I have a dedicated NIC on my computer that I could use for this kind of thing, but I would still need to configure the proper interface settings on each Cisco device before I could get a connection to the TFTP server. This might be more trouble then its worth.
3. You have a better idea
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