In this session of A Few Easy Steps, we will be Disabling NAT ALG for DNS on
a Cisco Router.

Session Prerequisites:

• You have terminal or console access to your Cisco device.

Session Assumptions:

• You have NAT Enabled
• You do not need ALG to re-write DNS payloads to account for NAT

Our goals of this session are:

• Disable NAT ALG for DNS

Disable NAT ALG for DNS

!
conf t
!
no ip nat service alg tcp dns
!
no ip nat service alg udp dns
!
end
!
copy running-config startup-config

 

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In this session of A Few Easy Steps, we will be adding a static route to a Cisco Router.

In General this will work on any Layer3 Cisco IOS device.

Session Prerequisites:

• You have a Cisco Console Cable
• You have a serial port
• You have a Terminal Program that you can access your Serial Port

Session Assumptions:

• Your default route is for all unknown networks
• The Default router IP is 192.168.0.1
• You have at least one Routing Interface UP/UP
• IP Routing is already enabled

Our goals of this session are:

• Enable Default Route

Enable Default Route

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 1 permanent

In this session of A Few Easy Steps, we will naming a VLAN in a Cisco Switch.
In General this will work on any Cisco Switch.

Session Prerequisites:

• You have terminal or console access to your Cisco device.

Session Assumptions:

• We are naming VLAN 20
• The Name for VLAN 20 is SessionTEST

Our goals of this session are:

• Name VLAN

Name VLAN

!
conf t
!
vlan 20
!
name vlan SessionTest
!
end
!
copy running-config startup-config

In this session of A Few Easy Steps, we will Setup Trunk Port on a Cisco Switch.
In General this will work on any Cisco Switch.

Session Prerequisites:

• You have terminal or console access to your Cisco device.

Session Assumptions:

• We are using Interface Fastethernet 0/14
• We are trunking All VLANs
• Native VLAN is 200
• We are building a dot1q trunk

Our goals of this session are:

• Change port trunk encapsulation
• Change Switchport mode
• Allow all VLANs on Trunk
• Set native VLAN

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In this session of A Few Easy Steps, we will be setting up an Access Port on a Cisco Switch. In General this will work on any Cisco Switch.

Session Prerequisites:

• You have terminal or console access to your Cisco device.

Session Assumptions:

• VLAN 291 is our target VLAN
• Interface FastEthernet 0/4 is our target port (This should be adjusted for your situation)

Our goals of this session are:

• Setup VLAN 291
• Setup Access Port

Setup VLAN 291

!
conf t
!
vlan 291
!
end
!

Setup Access Port

!
conf t
!
interface fastethernet 0/4
!
switchport mode access
!
switchport access vlan 291
!
end
!
copy running-config startup-config
!

Entire Session:

!
conf t
!
vlan 291
!
exit
!
interface fastethernet 0/4
!
switchport mode access
!
switchport access vlan 291
!
end
!
copy running-config startup-config
!