General Cisco Settings
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Public domain
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### Hostname

    configure terminal
    hostname SW1
    end

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### Enable secret password

    configure terminal
    enable secret 123456
    end

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### Telnet password

    configure terminal 
    line vty 0 4
    password 123456
    login
    line vty 5 15
    password 123456
    login
    end

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### Console password

    configure terminal 
    line console 0
    password 123456
    login
    end

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### Encrypt all passwords 

    configure terminal 
    service password-encryption 
    end

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### Disable console EXEC timeout

    configure terminal 
    line console 0
    exec-timeout 0 0
    end

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### Disable console logging

    configure terminal 
    no logging console
    end

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### "%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/network-confg (Timed out)" Error Message Prevention

    configure terminal
    no service config
    end

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### Prevent "Translating.... domain server (255.255.255.255)" Messages after an Invalid Command

* First method: Disabling automatic connection with a hostname in command line


        configure terminal 
        line  console 0
        transport preferred none
        line vty 0 4
        transport preferred none
        line vty 5 15
        transport preferred none
        end


* Second method: Disabling ip domian lookup


        configure terminal 
        no ip domain-lookup 
        end


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### Keyboard shotcuts

* [Ctrl-A] : Moves to the start of a line
* [Ctrl-E] : Moves to the end of a line
* [Ctrl-D] : Deletes the character at the cursor
* [Ctrl-K] : Deletes all characters from the cursor to the end of the line
* [Ctrl-U] : Deletes all characters from the cursor to the beginning of the line
* [Ctrl-W] : Deletes the word to the left of the cursor

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_BY: Pejman Moghadam_  
_TAG: error, console_  
_DATE: 2012-02-01 17:18:28_