Getting to Know the Cisco Router Mode

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Getting to know the Cisco Router Mode

Routers are devices that perform routing functions, the router can carry out their duties because of the configuration is made, when we are going to do and go through the configuration on a Cisco router console then there are 3 modes, ie user mode, privileged mode and global configuration mode. We need to understand the differences in these modes when configuring a router so that we would know where we were in vogue at the time of configuration and what we can do in that mode.

The modes on the router

At the moment we are doing a lot of configuration on the Cisco router commands or command contained in any mode, where the command is in a mode but is not found in other modes.

User Mode: Router>
At the moment we first login through the console then we will go into user mode, which in this mode we can not do configuration, in this mode you can only see the basic information of the router, and to see what commands are available in this mode type the command show?

Privileged Mode: Router #
From user mode to enter the privileged mode enable and type the command to return to user mode type the command to disable this mode we can see the routing information, interface protocol, the running configuration, the configuration is saved, and a little configuration example to set the clock on the router. To see the commands available in this mode type the command show?

Global Configuration Mode: Router (config #)
To get into this mode on privileged mode and enter the command configure terminal in this mode we have begun to do the configuration include: change hostname, change passwords, configuring access lists, etc., and to see the commands available in this mode type the command show?
From this mode, you can enter more specific modes such as entry into the interface mode, mode to configure routing and others.

Once we understand this fashion then we'll see what we can do in each mode when the router configuration mode hierarchy and understand the Cisco Router.