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| Britboy 2002-05-14, 5:28 am |
| Hi,
Coming to the end of Semester 2 in the Cisco Networking Academy and have been manually configuring the routers. There are 5 routers to configure in the topology and i have found that configuring each, can be time consuming,i.e Host tables and such. We have found that we can copy the host table address's from one router to the other via telneting into the first router doing a 'sh run, copying the details and dropping them into the second router.
Does anyone have any other short cut ideas?
p.s i know in a production enviroment, you may use a TFTP server to save your configs. This is purely for the cisco topology.
Regards,
Ian
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| csiszerd 2002-05-14, 3:11 pm |
| Can't you configure TFTP on another router if you have enough memory? | |
| rheingold 2002-05-14, 4:29 pm |
| Cisco has a free TFTP server you can install
on the desktop/laptop pc (Win 95/98/NT) you are using to configure your Cisco devices. Here is the direct link to Cisco's download page:
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/tftp
Hope this helps! | |
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| Assuming you have console access just cut and paste, but make sure your in config T mode first. This way you don't need any config at all and no need to telnet.
You can also configure routers to act as TFTP servers, I don't have the link somebody once sent me an example - however they were using it to copy IOS's, I'm not sure if the same principle stands for running configs.
As for TFTP servers, 3Com have one which is simple to use and also does FTP and Syslog, do a search at 3com.com | |
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| Copying From One Router to Another
To do this, you need to activate the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server on the router that has the Cisco IOSŪ Software image that you want to copy.
Use the tftp-server [device]:[filename] command in global configuration mode as follows:
Router#show flash
System flash directory:
File Length Name/status
1 11173264 c2500-jos56i-l.120-9.bin
[11173328 bytes used, 5603888 available, 16777216 total]
16384K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)
Router#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router(config)#tf
Router(config)#tftp-server ?
flash: Allow URL file TFTP load requests
flh: Allow URL file TFTP load requests
lex: Allow URL file TFTP load requests
null: Allow URL file TFTP load requests
nvram: Allow URL file TFTP load requests
system: Allow URL file TFTP load requests
Router(config)#tftp-server
Router(config)#tftp-server flash:?
flash:c2500-jos56i-l.120-9.bin
Router(config)#tftp-server flash:c2500-jos56i-l.120-9.bin
Router(config)#^Z
Router#
Once the tftp-server is configured, you can download the specified image from the router using the copy tftp flash command, as if it were a classic TFTP server.
Note: The IP address of your TFTP server is the address of the router on which you configured the tftp-server command.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/63/copyimage.html
criteria for search
*router tftp server* at
http://www.cisco.com/public/pubsearch.html
2nd link from the search result. |
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