Adding a route to a Cisco 800 Switch

[SirDice]

You can find password recovery procedures on Cisco's site

[Nokia]

Can you not ask a network engineer to help you out? Someone must look after the router....

[Zorolord]

The guy who usual looks after it is abroad, and I think he got sick of me as he has stopped repling to my messages. I cannot seem to register on cisco either which I had tried previously before SirDice kindly suggested. I will try again and register with a different address, and see if that works.

We have never had problems with cisco's router's before - So some how I think the routing table or configeration has screwed up at the router2 (as Nokia suggested). They claim their haven't had a power cut, so I am stumped well it the weekend now. So I will have to have an go on Monday (my boss is back then too )

In the mean time I shall try to register on the cisco site again.

Thanks to everyone for the help so far. I have learned a bit more about Cisco command's which should provide useful should I ever need to admin a cisco router again.

[c1sc0m4n]

For password recovery, you need to console into i, shut it off, turn it back on, and initiate a break sequence (either shift-pause/break or ctrl-pause/break)---this will get you to the
rommon1>
prompt. From there, do this...
rommon1>confreg 2142
rommon2>reset
The router reboots, and loads the default config, no passwords. When it comes all the way up, do this...
router>en
router#copy start run
Then you can
router#conf t
router(config)#no service password-encryption
router(config)#exit
router#sh run
This will show the passwords. If a secret is enabled, just enable a different one, like so...
router#conf t
router(config)#enable secret blablabla
Then make sure you do passwords for line con 0 and vty 0 4
router(config)#line con 0
router(config-line)#password bambam
router(config-line)#login
router(config-line)#exit
router(config)#line vty 0 4
router(config-line)#password bambam (or a different one, if you want)
router(config-line)#login
router(config-line)#exit
Then re-enable password encryption...
router(config)#service password-encryption
If there is a line like
username boom privelege 15 password (or secret) 7 xxxxxxxx
Then you will see it. This is normally set for authentication to a RADIUS/TACACS+ server, local AAA database in the router, or ssh/http/https logins. Hope this helps.

Tim

[c1sc0m4n]

I forgot---set the config register back to 2102 like so...
router(config)#config-register 2102
router(config)#exit
router#wr
The "wr" command writes (or saves) the running-config to the startup-config.

Tim

[Nokia]

Personally I think that if you don't administer the router and don't understand how it slots in functionality-wise into the network then you shouldn't do anything to it.

I certainly wouldn't try a password reset on it and most certainly would not power it down and back up again without understanding what it is used for, or speaking to the network manager first.

I would fire someone on the spot for doing that on any of my networks.

[cheyenne1212]

What is your position in relation with this company?

Is this a 1 man operation or a company with multiple IT staff?

[Zorolord]

I don't really have a choice the guy is normally sorts it away for 2 weeks, and I cannot any specialists in till Tuesday. The system is off the guys cannot do any stock checks or transactions.

I know exactly what the router is for too route the packet between two networks or more. In my case between my office and 3rd party warehouse. The thing is not working anyhow so I won't get sacked because I was given permisson from my colleague who is the cisco expert (devine entity to me

It would be a different case if I was just a office worker or shop floor staff, I would be same I would sack anyone for messing with I.T. equipment.

I haven't messed with cisco router's before that's why I was a bit dumb at first. I know alot now since you (Nokia and the other guys have helped me) I still don't know what I am doing in regards to config but I will muddle on. as the think is fooked, so I can't make it worse unless I loose the routes and dialer information on router2 - I will be shafted big style then, if that happens.

I have a small I.T. Deparment - my roll is just desktop support and server maintenance (just keeping them running with updates etc) I have three colleagues locally

3 Programmers - one of whom my colleagues look after the infrastructure of the network he's manages all com's routers/switches/firewalls/WiFi etc and servers. Unfortuantely everytime he goes on Holiday I am ****ed as I get more sense of a brick wall then asking the other two.

[c1sc0m4n]

Well, I thought it was common sense to not just go and do this---I was assuming he is the admin, seen as how he is inquiring about how to look at and possibly modify the routing table. But yeah---what Nokia said. Come on, dude...

Tim

[Nokia]

Careful you don't make matters worse for yourself though mate - taking routers off-line invariably has an impact of pretty much the whole network...

If you break it and get hauled into your boss you may at least be able to blag a Cisco course outta them

Good luck to ya, whatever you decide to do

//I have always found it good practice to hold your hands up and admit to management that you are in too deep, than to blunder in and hope it all works out. At worst the give they responsibility to someone else, at best they train you up - either way the outcome is better than having the network come crashing down around your ears because you made a mistake. -Bring a server off-line for a few minutes in all likelihood you will get away with no one noticing....bring the infrastructure down for a few minutes and all hell breaks loose