Recovering Passwords
If you’re bound out of a router because you forgot the password, you can change the configuration
register to advice you get aback on your feet.
To balance a password, you charge to about-face on bit 6. Doing this will acquaint the router to ignore
the NVRAM contents. The agreement annals amount to about-face on bit 6 is 0x2142.
Here are the capital accomplish to countersign recovery:
1.
Boot the router and arrest the cossack arrangement by assuming a break, which will take
the router into ROM adviser mode.
2.
Change the agreement annals to about-face on bit 6 (with the amount 0x2142).
3.
Reload the router.
4.
Enter advantaged mode.
5.
Copy the startup-config book to running-config.
6.
Change the password.
7.
Reset the agreement annals to the absence value.
8.
Save the router configuration.
9.
Reload the router (optional).