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Profile Management Commands for the Cisco 700 Series Routers

Table 7-3 summarizes the commands used for managing the Cisco 700 series router profiles.

Routing with the Cisco 700 Series Router

Routing over the WAN with the 700 series router is accomplished by using static routes within
the profile. Each profile (or subdirectory) has a route associated with it. The router, when
looking for a route to satisfy a user request for connectivity to a remote network, finds the
profile that can satisfy that request and makes a connection using the configuration parameters
associated with that profile.

Routing on the LAN side of the router is done using RIP-1 or RIP-2. Because the router has a
directly connected LAN and each profile is pseudo directly connected, the router maintains a
route table with these entries. Any other routes that are learned through RIP over the LAN are
also reflected in the route table.

It is possible to run RIP over the WAN side; however, because DDR is the general mode for this
router, it doesn't make sense to learn routes from a remote side because the connection is not
going to remain up to maintain the routes.

The Cisco 700 series router is compatible with the IOS snapshot routing protocol for RIP and
can exchange routes on the WAN side, although it would be a rare implementation that would
require this. The positioning of this router does not lend itself to being an access router for a
large group of users.

Table 7- 3

Command

Description

set user

This command initially creates the profile (or subdirectory) for the connection called
user. Selecting the name "user" for a connection is similar to naming a router "router".
Generally, the name of the connection is something that is meaningful to the connection.

upload

This command writes the configuration to the monitor screen. The configuration is
presented on the screen without page breaks. It is necessary to use a monitor program
(such as hyperterminal) to view the entire configuration by using the scroll arrows on
your keyboard.

set default

This command is similar to doing an erase startup-config and then issuing a reload
command on an IOS router. Care should be taken with this command because it does
NOT prompt the user that the configuration will be set back to factory defaults. The use
of this command could be a career-ending event if there is no saved hardcopy of the
configuration.

reset

This command simply reloads and reinitializes the router.