Introduction to the IOS CLI

- [Instructor] We're ready to start configuring…our routers and switches.…So, we're going to plug into…the console of a router or switch…and get to something called the Command Line Interface.…Sometimes I refer to this as the cash line interface…because if you can use this command line,…you can get the cash.…Alright, so once we plug into the console and press enter,…we're going to be at what's called the greater than sign,…which is referred to as user mode.…It only allows you to view statistics.…In order to configure the router or see the config,…I'm going to type the command, enable, from user mode.…

And it's going to take us to what's called, privileged mode.…Now if I erase a router or switch…and reload it so there's no config,…I come up to something called setup mode.…Now this isn't something you want to see when you go to work…because that means you have no configuration.…Right, so, we can get into setup mode by erasing it,…reloading it, or just typing setup from privilege mode.…And this is a configuration dialog that allows you…