Saturday, December 8, 2007

The best way to configure Cisco equipments


If you consider yourself as a novice to networking or Cisco equipments, then you should use the GUI (Graphical User Interface), SDM, or any Web Interface configuration tool that is available already in the Cisco equipments to configure.

However a lot of time Cisco Web Interface has bugs and somewhat unreliable. In addition, the Web Interface may or may not available in the equipment or are uninstalled. Also, you can only configure basic feature when using Web Interface.

The most direct and reliable way to configure Cisco equipments is always using CLI (Command Line Interface). For those who are novice to networking or Cisco equipments, most of the time it would be overwhelming when configuring Cisco equipments using CLI for the first time.

No worries! Check out this forum FAQ. There are also topics how revive the SDM when it is not working; even the very basic step to CLI introduction as follows.

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