Re: Disable Password Discovery - Urgent

From: Godswill Oletu (oletu@inbox.lv)
Date: Mon Jul 18 2005 - 12:12:37 GMT-3


sorry, I meant setting bits 6 & 8 to 1 will yield 0x21A2

Thanks.
Godswill Oletu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Godswill Oletu" <oletu@inbox.lv>
To: "k c" <jwongccie@yahoo.com.hk>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: Disable Password Discovery - Urgent

> KC,
>
> You might also want to set Bits 6 & 8 of the configuration register.
> 08 Break disabled
> 06 Ignore configuration disabled
>
> But in the Lab, I do not know if you are allowed to set the configuration
> registers, others who have personal experience can comment on this. If
> this is a restriction, the 'no service password-recovery' should be
> enough....
>
> Read the this link especially the pre-requisite section:
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps5413/products_feature_guide09186a00802a1e76.html#wp1056707
>
> The link above also tell you how to recover from 'no service
> password-recovery' command, however you will lose your configurations, so
> backing your configs including your vlan.dat, private-vlan.dat, etc is
> very important before using this command in a life network.
>
> All things being equal, if you want to start with the default
> configuration register's value of 0x2102 and just set bit 8 to 1 using the
> that value, you will come out with:
> eg, 0x2102 = 10000100000010 (seting bit 8 to 1 will result in)
> 0x21A2 = 10000110100010
>
> So the value you will be using is 0x21A2.
>
> Do not panic, you are allowed to use that wonderfull tool called scientic
> calculator in windows.
>
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/474/pswdrec_2500.html#topic2
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> ---
> Godswill Oletu
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "k c" <jwongccie@yahoo.com.hk>
> To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 9:57 AM
> Subject: Disable Password Discovery - Urgent
>
>
>> Hi Group,
>>
>> Question:
>> Disable password recovery on R1 to prevent a person with physical access
>> to the router(s) from viewing the configuration file.
>>
>> I would like to know besides "no service password-recovery", should I
>> configure the configuration register, if yes, what value should I set?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
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