1600 series router..Plz help 1

[paul123456]

K guys please bare with me cause im pretty new at this stuff. I lost my secret password for my router so i reset the configuration of it...everytime i start it now it asks me... (in the sytem configuration dialog)

would you like to enter the initial conguretion dialog? (yes)

would you like to enter basic management setup? (yes)

enter host name (router)

enter enable secret password (password)

enter enable passowd (password)

enter virtual terminal password (password)

configur snmp network (no)

enter interface name used to connect (ethernet1)

then i enter in the ip address for this connection and it takes me to this

0 go to the ios command prompt without saving
1 return back to the setup without saving
2 save this configuration to nvram and exit

i choose 2 the it builds the configuration but everytime i reboot the router it starts all over with the questions? what could this be? am i missing something?




Thanks, PAUL

 

[fmonteiro]

Paul,
You probably have the configuration-register set to ignore the config-file present on the NVRAN. Do a "show version".
It sould look like:

------------------ show version ------------------

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 1600 Software (C1600-BNOR2SY56I-M), Version 12.1(3)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE
(fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Wed 19-Jul-00 02:28 by ccai
Image text-base: 0x02005000, data-base: 0x02B1CB6C

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.0(3)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
ROM: 1600 Software (C1600-RBOOT-R), Version 12.0(3)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

IBM-Test uptime is 1 hour, 29 minutes
System returned to ROM by reload
System image file is "flash:c1600-bnor2sy56i-mz.121-3.T"

cisco 1601 (68360) processor (revision C) with 18432K/6144K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 23098320, with hardware revision 00000003
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
1 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
2 Serial(sync/async) network interface(s)
System/IO memory with parity disabled
8192K bytes of DRAM onboard 16384K bytes of DRAM on SIMM
System running from RAM
7K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
8192K bytes of processor board PCMCIA flash (Read/Write)

Configuration register is 0x2102

-----------------------------------------------------------

Look at the last line of the output. This is the config register. If you have anything but 0x2102 change to this value:

enable
conf term
config-register 0x2102
exit
wr

Just to make sure you configuration is really present on the NVRAM do a "sh start". You should have your config file.

Do a "reload".

 

[paul123456]

OHhhhh yeah...u da man....that was my problem. Now im off to configure this bad boy for NAT. Off to the books..thnx again.

Thanks, PAUL