woo!

Darthn3ss

Well tonight i finished my OSPF and EIGRP labs - i must say, it seemed a little too simple, even if it was on a CCNA level. specially EIGRP. The chapter for EIGRP was about 20 pages and had 2 labs (6 labs for OSPF). I really was expecting more to EIGRP. I have Routing TCP/IP vol 1 and some sybex BSCI book (possibly a bit old) that i might look start reading to get a deeper understanding. I feel kind of cheated on EIGRP. Is there anywhere where i might find some good eigrp and ospf labs/scenarios i can do ? i think i kinda want more practice there. i almost feel cheated.

After this its on to the wonderful (er, i hope) world of switching, and about 25-30+ labs comes with that, as well as 6 chapters in my book!



Also, one thing that i've been meaning to ask: is it possible to change the default configuration (err.. or whatever) on your router? Ie, when you do "erase start" and then reload the router, is it possible to change the config thats loaded? I'd like it to come up with console, vty, and secret passwords and a few other things set... is that possible, or should i quit being lazy and just copy and paste? :P

Netstudent

you could DL SolarWinds tftp server, create a quick config with the settings you would like to be universal and save the config on the tftp. You could then copy the config from tftp. All you would have to do is setup your ethernet int with an IP. copy tftp startup-config I believe..

Darthn3ss

i'll just copy and paste unless someone (Darby?) comes up with something else

or i could save a copy of the config i mentioned to flash and then copy it to startup config... that would work. i'd have to reload though.

edit: looks like this BSCI book will put switching back for a while :P. i'll skip the BGP and IS-IS but the first 2 chapters (small, basic stuff) through multi-area OSPF is half the book... :P

jvax

Darthn3ss wrote:

or i could save a copy of the config i mentioned to flash and then copy it to startup config... that would work. i'd have to reload though.

I am not sure if it works on all platforms, or at all, but if you can save your config to flash, maybe you could try something like "copy flash:your.config system:running-config".

If this works you'll have a way to load your configs on the fly.

Let us know if it worked. I know I couldn't do it on 25xx routers.

Ciscopimpenator

Go into your router and setup the config the way you want and then issue this command in EXEC mode

(config)#copy run start

It will then ask you for the destination file name, just press Return.

Next time your boot your router the config should be saved.