Pre-requisite

  • Putty application

Displaying the Interfaces

Use the following command to display the available interfaces and their states:

show ip interface brief

Assigning an IP

  1. Connect to cisco console using putty.

  2. Press the enter key to enter into user mode.

  3. Execute the following command to enter into privilege mode:

    enable

  4. Load the startup-config into the running-config using the following command:

    copy startup-config running-config

  5. Execute the following command to enter into the configuration mode:

    config terminal

  6. Configure an interface using the following syntax:

    interface <INTERFACE_NAME>

    Example

    interface GigabitEthernet0/0

  7. Assign an IP address using the following syntax:

    ip address <IP_ADDRESS> <SUBNET_MASK>

    Example

    ip address 10.0.0.210 255.255.255.0

  8. Turn on the interface using the following command:

    no shutdown

  9. Exit the interface configuration using the following command:

    exit

  10. Exit the configuration mode:

    exit

    After this you can display the interfaces and see the state of the interface just configured

  11. Save the update on the running-config to the startup-config file using the following command:

    copy running-config startup-config