Introduction to Routing and Packet Forwarding - Routing Protocols and Concepts - page 43

exceeds its Time to Live (TTL). This operation can be performed at either the user or privileged
EXEC modes. The Windows version of this command is tracert .

Use the traceroute command at the R1 privileged EXEC prompt to discover the path that
a packet will take from the R1 router to PC1.

Step 1.

R1# traceroute 192.168.1.10

Type escape sequence to abort.
Tracing the route to 192.168.1.10
1 192.168.1.10 103 msec 81 msec 70 msec
R1#

Use the tracert command at the Windows command prompt to discover the path that a
packet will take from the R1 router to PC1.

Step 2.

C:\> tracert 192.168.1.1

Tracing route to 192.168.1.1 over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 71 ms 70 ms 73 ms 192.168.1.1

Trace complete.

C:\>

Task 12: Create a start.txt File

Router configurations can be captured to a text (.txt) file and saved for later use. The configuration
can be copied back to the router so that the commands do not have to be entered one at a time.

View the running configuration of the router using the show running-config command.

Step 1.

R1# show running-config

!
version 12.3
!
hostname R1
!
!
enable secret 5 $1$J.hq$Ds72Qz86tvpcuW2X3FqBS.
!
no ip domain-lookup
!
interface FastEthernet0/0
description R1 LAN
mac-address 0007.eca7.1511
ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
duplex auto
speed auto

!
interface FastEthernet0/1