Using out-of-band router access

- So the first step in getting a router…configured and set up for network connectivity…is to access the command-line,…and that's what this course is focusing on,…is how to actually configure a router with a command-line.…So we have to gain access to the command-line…interface of the router.…And the router that I'm going to be demonstrating…for this course is router 1 whose name…in the topology is West.…In order to get connectivity, you really…have two choices for accessing the command-line.…

You can either do that out-of-band,…which requires physical access to the router…through the console port, or you can do it in-band,…but in-band requires that the router's already set up,…it's already been given an IP address,…and that you can reach it across a network.…So since this is a brand new router out of the box,…we have to access this router through…an out-of-band connection.…And that means that we have to connect a cable…from the host to the console port on the router.…

In Packet Tracer, what we are going to do,…and if you happen to have access to Packet Tracer,…