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Disaster Recovery in Router s

This information is here primarily for my reference at customer sites; for some odd reason, I seem to be recovering IOS images through ROMMON quite a bit lately. These are the minimum fields to get this going through TFTP rather than XModem. Hopefully you find this beneficial as well! rommon 1 > IP_ADDRESS=192.168.1.100 rommon 2 > IP_SUBNET_MASK=255.255.255.0 rommon 3 > DEFAULT_GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 rommon 4 > TFTP_SERVER=192.168.1.50 rommon 5 > TFTP_FILE=c2600-adventerprisek9-mz.124-5a.bin rommon 6 > tftpdnld            (this command kicks off the tftp download)

Completely Clearing a Cisco Switch...The Easy Way!

Clearing out a Cisco switch configuration is always a pain because VLANs are kept in a seperate file from the startup-config (NVRAM). There's two ways to clear a switch back to the factory defaults - the easy way and the REALLY easy way: The easy way - Switch# write erase Switch# delete flash:vlan.dat Switch# reload