Connecting a Cisco WIC-1ENET Card to the LAN
To configure the card by using the command-line interface (CLI), follow this procedure:
Connect a console or a PC running terminal emulation software, such as HyperTerminal, to the router.
Step 1
If you need instructions for connecting to the console port of the router, refer to the installation chapter
of your router installation and configuration guide.
Power on the router. If the startup configuration is valid, the EXEC prompt (
Step 2
startup configuration is not valid, the router attempts to run Auto Install, and the following prompt
appears:
Would you like to enter the initial dialog? [yes]:
Enter no and press Enter to display the EXEC prompt.
Enter enable and the password (if any) to enter enable mode. The prompt changes to the privileged mode
Step 3
prompt (
Enter config terminal to enter configuration mode:
Step 4
Router#config terminal
Router(config)#
The router enters global configuration mode, shown by the
If you want to change the router configuration, you can configure global parameters, passwords, network
management, and routing protocols. For complete information about global configuration commands,
refer to the IOS configuration guides and command references.
Select the Ethernet interface to configure. The following example assumes the card is installed in slot 0:
Step 5
Router(config)#interface Ethernet 0
Router(config-if)#
The prompt changes again to show that you are in interface configuration mode.
Configure the routing protocols on the Cisco WIC-1ENET interface. (You must have previously enabled
Step 6
these protocols as part of global configuration.) In this example, IP and IPX are being configured:
Router(config-if)#ip address ipaddress subnetmask
Router(config-if)#ipx network networknumber
Enter no shutdown to enable the port:
Step 7
Router(config-if)#no shutdown
Enter exit to return to the
Step 8
Exit configuration mode and return to privileged mode by pressing Ctrl-Z. To see the current running
Step 9
configuration, including any changes you made, enter the show running-config command:
Router#show running-config
To store the running configuration in NVRAM, enter the copy running-config startup-config command
Step 10
while in privileged mode:
Router#copy running-config startup-config
Building configuration. . .
[OK]
Router#
The router automatically copies the startup configuration in NVRAM to the running configuration and
executes it whenever the router is powered on or the reload command is entered. To see the configuration
stored in NVRAM, enter the show startup-config command:
Configuring the Interface
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). Configuration changes can be made only in enable mode.
Router#
Router(config)#
Router(config)#
prompt.
) appears. If the
Router>
prompt.
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