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Cisco 3200 Series Wireless MIC Software Configuration Guide

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Chapter 3 Administering the WMIC

Configuring a System Name and Prompt

You configure the system name on the WMIC to identify it. A greater-than symbol (>) is appended. The

prompt is updated whenever the system name changes, unless you manually configure the prompt by

using the prompt global configuration command.

Note For complete syntax and usage information for the commands used in this section, refer to the Cisco IOS

Configuration Fundamentals Command Reference and the Cisco IOS IP and IP Routing Command

Reference for Release 12.1.

Configuring a System Name

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to manually configure a system name:

When you set the system name, it is also used as the system prompt.

To return to the default host name, use the no hostname global configuration command.

Managing DNS

The DNS protocol controls the Domain Name System (DNS), a distributed database with which you can

map host names to IP addresses. When you configure DNS on your WMIC, you can substitute the host

name for the IP address with all IP commands, such as ping, telnet, connect, and related Telnet support

operations.

IP defines a hierarchical naming scheme that allows a device to be identified by its location or domain.

Domain names are pieced together with periods (.) as the delimiting characters. For example, Cisco

Systems is a commercial organization that IP identifies by a com domain name, so its domain name is

cisco.com. A specific device in this domain, such as the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) system, is

identified as ftp.cisco.com.

To keep track of domain names, IP has defined the concept of a domain name server, which holds a cache

(or database) of names mapped to IP addresses. To map domain names to IP addresses, you must first

identify the host names, specify the name server that is present on your network, and enable the DNS.

Command Purpose

Step 1

configure terminal Enter global configuration mode.

Step 2

hostname name Manually configure a system name.

The default setting is bridge.

The name must follow the rules for ARPANET host names. They must start

with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior characters only

letters, digits, and hyphens. Names can be up to 63 characters.

Step 3

end Return to privileged EXEC mode.

Step 4

show running-config Verify your entries.

Step 5

copy running-config startup-config (Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.