Protecting Cisco IOS Files
Similar to the computers that we use every day, a router also uses an operating system. The traditional Cisco operating system on the router is called IOS, or sometimes classic IOS. When a router first boots, it performs a power-on self-test and then looks for an image of IOS on the flash. After loading the IOS into RAM, the router then looks for its startup configuration. If for whatever reason an IOS image or the startup configuration cannot be found or loaded properly, the router will effectively be nonfunctional as far as the network is concerned.
To help protect a router from accidental or malicious tampering of the IOS or startup configuration, Cisco offers a resilient configuration feature. This feature maintains ...
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