Answers: Login Security 1
This lab asks you to work through a few login security options in IOS. Should be a quick and easy lab. Check out the requirements here first, and come back to this post for the answers.
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200-301 V1 Part 2: Ethernet
Login Security 1
One of the first configuration items that becomes second nature is the configuration of basic password settings. But it is also easy to forget about the small differences in password security configuration once you get used to configuring your own
Answers: Switch IP 1
Cisco Catalyst switches typically allow Telnet/SSH access as a matter of habit. For practice, check out the earlier lab exercise, create your own answer, and check your answer against this blog post.
Switch IP 1
A layer 2 switch does not need an IP address or default gateway for its primary purpose of forwarding layer 2 Ethernet frames. However, the switch does need an IP address and a default gateway for layer 3 communication, such
Answers: CLI Passwords 2
Do you know how to configure local usernames, and enable their use for login security on a Cisco router? No more sharing the same login password among all the network engineers. If you want some quick practice, go back
CLI Passwords 2
The simplest way to protect the CLI uses passwords shared by all, rather than a per-user username and password. Using a per-user login method improves security. The easiest option for using per-user logins in a Cisco lab is to configure
Answer: Enabling SSH and Disabling Telnet
This #CCENT lab may have seemed simple at first, but it has just enough steps so that it is easy to miss a step. If you did the lab on paper only, make sure to check your answer here –
Enabling SSH and Disabling Telnet
Many of us start out learning about the simplest Cisco security option: one password for all users to reach user mode, with no per-user login. By today’s standards, that security method is archaic. Today’s lab lets you upgrade from that
Answers: CLI Passwords 1
Protect the console. Protect Telnet. And protect enable mode. All basic tasks, and all a useful and necessary starting point for learning about security for Cisco devices. This lab shows the answer for the related password lab. As always, first
CLI Passwords 1
Protecting access to the CLI of Cisco routers and switches starts with basic password security. From there, you can move on to use per-user login security that requires both a username and password, whether using locally-configured username/password pairs or whether
