|  | 6.1 | Router Configuration Files
| 6.1.2 | Working with release 11.x configuration files
Router configuration information can be generated by several means. You can use the privileged EXEC configure command to configure from a virtual (remote) terminal, a modem connection, or a console terminal. This allows you to enter changes to an existing configuration at any time. You can also use the privileged EXEC configure command to load a configuration from a network TFTP server, which allows you to maintain and store configuration information at a central site. The following list describes briefly some of the configuration commands: configure terminal -- configures manually from the console terminal configure memory -- loads configuration information from NVRAM copy tftp running-config -- loads configuration information from a network TFTP server show running-config -- displays the current configuration in RAM copy running-config startup-config -- stores the current configuration from RAM into NVRAM copy running-config tftp -- stores the current configuration from RAM on a network TFTP server show startup-config -- displays the saved configuration, which is the contents of NVRAM erase startup-config -- erases the contents of NVRAM
| Lab Activity
| In this lab you will use the Windows terminal emulation program, HyperTerminal, to capture and upload a router configuration as an ASCII text file.