We've had a Cisco 800 series ADSL router installed on out DSL line for a year or so now and I need to change a couple of port forwarding settings. Initialy the phone company set up a few for me and I haven't had to change them until now. I'd like to do it myself so that in the future if I have more changes I can change them instead of having the phone company do it for me. Here comes the kicker, the original settings were done using a telnet session, I tried to use the web admin page on the router and managed to bolix it up so completely, who knew enabling PAT would reset something else, that I had to have the phone company get in and fix it. Took them 2 days to do it and management was screaming. What I need to know is how can I back up the entire router so that if I screw up I can just redump the settings back in and get back up and running ASAP. I remember the original installer telling me something about the telnet session and recording the settings to a file that I could just play back into the telnet session and reset everything but I do not remember exactly how. The main reason I never played with the router before is that I never could remember how I was told to back it up in the first place and I'd really like to do this now so I can play with VPN and other port forwarding stuff without having to worry about getting billed for my screwups ;) Can anyone give me a short tutorial on backing up this router?
Thanks
Bill