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Command-Line Interface (CLI)
To use the CLI, press Enter after the router finishes booting up. After you do that, the
router will respond with messages that tell you all about the status of each and every one
of its interfaces and then display a banner and ask you to log in.
Just log in using cisco/cisco as the username/password and you will be in
privileged mode.
After the interface status messages appear and you press Enter, the Router> prompt will
appear. This is called user exec mode (user mode), and it’s mostly used to view statistics, but
it’s also a stepping stone to logging in to privileged mode.
You can only view and change the configuration of a Cisco router in privileged exec mode
(privileged mode), which you can enter with the enable command.
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