Hello all,
We have a Cisco 1711 that was just removed from an office we bought and we were planning to use it for a test environment but we're unable to reset the password. The "no service password-recovery" command must have been set because when it boots it says "PASSWORD RECOVERY FUNCTIONALITY IS DISABLED".
I've tried a CTRL-BREAK several times; it does bring up the "do you want to reset the router to factory defaults?", I say yes, it continues, then it says "are you sure you want to continue?", I say yes again (I have also tried "no" here), it continues booting, and after telling me how much flash memory is remaining, it starts loading kron commands and appears to disable the password recovery functions again. Then comes "This command has no effect on this line; use modem AT commands instead" and it halts here indefinitely.
This router has no removable battery or NVRAM chip to store the config; it is stored in EEPROM. So I can't remove that to reset it either. I should also mention that if I try to boot it without the (CTRL-BREAK) sequence, the boot halts in the exact same place, after "This command has no effect on this line; use modem AT commands instead".
The router was originally configured to establish a VPN connection over a dedicated circuit. If it could not establish the connection, it would dial out to the same network and establish a connection that way. So we believe that these commands issued in Kron were to establish that connectivity and download some configuration information. I thought that removing the modem might possibly bypass whatever is halting the boot, but the cards are permanently installed; that is, they are installed with rivets, not screws. I wanted to check around before I go through the trouble of drilling them out to find out whether or not that's the issue.
Any help you can provide would be appreciated. Thanks.
Here's the router output:
System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(7r)XM4, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
TAC Support:
C1700 platform with 131072 Kbytes of main memory
PASSWORD RECOVERY FUNCTIONALITY IS DISABLED
program load complete, entry point: 0x80008000, size: 0x11e318c
Self decompressing the image : #################################################
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############# [OK]
Smart Init is enabled smart init is sizing iomem ID MEMORY_REQ TYPE
MainBoard 0X00027A80 1711/1712
0X000F3BB0 public buffer pools 0X00211000 public particle poolsVPN 0X00030C0C VPN Module Buffers
0X0064 0X0000DC00 Card in slot 00X0038 0X00003C00 Card in slot 1
TOTAL: 0X0036EA3C
If any of the above Memory Requirement
"UNKNOWN", you may be using an unsupported
configuration or there is a software problem and
system operation may be compromised.
Allocating additional 10882306 bytes to IO Memory.
PMem allocated: 119736514 bytes; IOMem allocated: 14481214 bytes
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Cisco IOS Software, C1700 Software (C1700-ADVENTERPRISEK9-M), Version
12.3(4)XK1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Synched to technology version 12.3(5.7)T
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Compiled Tue 21-Sep-04 22:36 by ealyon
Image text-base: 0x80008120, data-base: 0x81F06364
PASSWORD RECOVERY IS DISABLED. Do you want to reset the router to factory default
configuration and proceed [y/n] ? Reset router configuration to factory default.
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Cisco 1711 (MPC862P) processor (revision 0x101) with 116930K/14142K bytes of mem
ory. Processor board ID with hardware revision 0000
MPC862P processor: part number 7, mask 0
1 Ethernet interface 5 FastEthernet interfaces 1 Serial interface 1 terminal line 1 Virtual Private Network (VPN) Module32K bytes of NVRAM.
32768K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)WARNING: Executing this command will disable password recovery mechanism.
Do not execute this command without another pl
password recovery.
Are you sure you want to continue? [yes/no]:
% Please answer 'yes' or 'no'. Are you sure you want to continue? [yes/no]: yes
%Remove Dialer Profile Configuration first
Kron: Policy Accepted, Policy needs to be configured
Kron: Policy Accepted, Policy needs to be configured
Kron: Policy Accepted, Policy needs to be configured
Kron: Policy Accepted, Policy needs to be configured
Kron: Policy Accepted, Policy needs to be configured
Kron: Policy Accepted, Policy needs to be configured
Kron: Policy Accepted, Policy needs to be configured
Kron: Policy Accepted, Policy needs to be configured
Kron: Policy Accepted, Policy needs to be configured
Kron: Policy Accepted, Policy needs to be configured
Kron: Policy Accepted, Policy needs to be configured
Kron: Policy Accepted, Policy needs to be configured
Kron: Policy Accepted, Policy needs to be configured
Kron: Policy Accepted, Policy needs to be configured
Kron: Policy Accepted, Policy needs to be configured
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Kron: Policy Accepted, Policy needs to b
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