It will prompt me, to enter my text message. I’m going to hit Enter as opposed to continuing my message. I use a percent sign “%” because that’s not in my banner. If it appears in the body of the message, as soon as it appears the second time, the device presumes that you’re done typing your message. The delimiting character can be any character that does not also appear in the body of your message. I’m going to pick a delimiting character (%). Paste that in, and that can be your banner. This is the way I like to configure my banners, because now you can get online and find yourself some cool ASCII art. This is some delimiting character which means to tell the device where the message starts.

You could type, if I follow the question marks through, (#banner login ? and some line, some text that I want it to say.Īlthough you also notice that you a delimiting character. The one I’m going to focus on right now ‑‑ or actually two that I’m going to be talking about today ‑‑ banner login and banner MOTD. The command is #banner and the question (?) mark can help you out.

I’m going to modify the banner and show you a couple of ways to set the banner. What I’m going to do is log in to this router. I have a scenario that I’ve built, with a simple router. In the absence of the banner, or if you have a banner that says, “Welcome to our network, come in and have fun hacking,” you realize that you’re leaving yourself wide open. If you have a warning telling them to stay out and they come in anyway, now you can prosecute. But it will certainly give you a legal means, or a legal leg, to stand on. What good is a banner? If somebody’s intent on breaking into my network, the banner’s not going to scare them away.

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