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    Cisco Router Password Recovery

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    This document provides instructions for recovering the password on a Cisco router by booting the router into ROMmon mode. The steps are: 1. Attach a terminal to the router's console port and power cycle the router. 2. Press the break key within 60 seconds of powering up to enter ROMmon mode. 3. In ROMmon mode, type "confreg 0x2142" to bypass the startup configuration containing passwords and "reset" to reboot the router. 4. Follow additional prompts to access enable mode without passwords and reset configurations and interfaces.

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    Cisco Router Password Recovery

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    This document provides instructions for recovering the password on a Cisco router by booting the router into ROMmon mode. The steps are: 1. Attach a terminal to the router's console port and power cycle the router. 2. Press the break key within 60 seconds of powering up to enter ROMmon mode. 3. In ROMmon mode, type "confreg 0x2142" to bypass the startup configuration containing passwords and "reset" to reboot the router. 4. Follow additional prompts to access enable mode without passwords and reset configurations and interfaces.

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    This document provides instructions for recovering the password on a Cisco router by booting the router into ROMmon mode. The steps are: 1. Attach a terminal to the router's console port and power cycle the router. 2. Press the break key within 60 seconds of powering up to enter ROMmon mode. 3. In ROMmon mode, type "confreg 0x2142" to bypass the startup configuration containing passwords and "reset" to reboot the router. 4. Follow additional prompts to access enable mode without passwords and reset configurations and interfaces.

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    Cisco Router Password Recovery

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    Mikiyas Tsegaye
    This document provides instructions for recovering the password on a Cisco router by booting the router into ROMmon mode. The steps are: 1. Attach a terminal to the router's console port and power cycle the router. 2. Press the break key within 60 seconds of powering up to enter ROMmon mode. 3. In ROMmon mode, type "confreg 0x2142" to bypass the startup configuration containing passwords and "reset" to reboot the router. 4. Follow additional prompts to access enable mode without passwords and reset configurations and interfaces.

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    CISCO ROUTER PASSWORD RECOVERY

    1. Attach a terminal or PC with terminal emulation to the console port of the router.
    Use these terminal settings:
     9600 baud rat
     No parity
     8 data bits
     1 stop bit
     No flow control

    2. Power cycle the router.


    3. Press Break on the terminal keyboard within 60 seconds of power up in order to
    put the router into ROMmon.
    4. ALSO TRY CNTRL+ALT+FN+Pause or CNTRL+ALT+FN+F12 if you can’t find
    the break key

    Operating
    Software Platform Try This
    System

    Hyperterminal IBM Compatible Windows XP Ctrl-Break

    Hyperterminal IBM Compatible Windows 2000 Ctrl-Break

    Hyperterminal IBM Compatible Windows 98 Ctrl-Break

    Hyperterminal
    IBM Compatible Windows 95 Ctrl-F6-Break
    (version 595160)

    Ctrl-\l
    Kermit Sun Workstation UNIX
    Ctrl-\b

    MicroPhone Pro IBM Compatible Windows Ctrl-Break

    Minicom IBM Compatible Linux Ctrl-a f

    DOS or
    ProComm Plus IBM Compatible Alt-b
    Windows

    SecureCRT IBM Compatible Windows Ctrl-Break

    Telix IBM Compatible DOS Ctrl-End

    Ctrl-], then type send


    Telnet N/A N/A
    brk
    Telnet to Cisco IBM Compatible N/A Ctrl-]

    Teraterm IBM Compatible Windows Alt-b

    Break
    Terminal IBM Compatible Windows
    Ctrl-Break

    Ctrl-], then Break or


    Ctrl-c
    Tip Sun Workstation UNIX
    ~#

    VT 100 Emulation Data General N/A F16

    Break-F5

    Shift-F5
    Windows NT IBM Compatible Windows
    Shift-6 Shift-4 Shift-b
    (^$B)

    Z-TERMINAL Mac Apple Command-b

    Connect pin 2 (X-mit) to


    Break-Out Box N/A
    +V for half a second
    N/A
    Cisco to aux port N/A Control-Shft-6, then b

    IBM Compatible N/A Ctrl-Break

    Standard Break Key Combinations

    5. Type confreg 0x2142 at the rommon 1> prompt in order to boot from Flash.
    This step bypasses the startup configuration where the passwords are stored.
    6. Type reset or i at the rommon 2> prompt.
    7. The router reboots, but ignores the saved configuration.
    8. Type no after each setup question, or press Ctrl-C in order to skip the initial setup
    procedure.
    9. Type enable at the Router> prompt.
    You are in enable mode and should see the Router# prompt.
    10. IF YOU DO NOT WANT THE EXISTING CONFIG THE GO TO STEP 17 otherwise
    continue to step 10.

    11. Type copy startup-config running-config in order to copy the nonvolatile RAM
    (NVRAM) into memory
    12. Warning: Do not type copy running-config startup-config or write. These commands
    erase your startup configuration.
    13. Type configure terminal.
    The router(config)# prompt appears.
    14. Type enable secret <password> in order to change the enable secret password. For
    example:
    hostname(config)#enable secret cisco
    15. Issue the no shutdown command on every interface that you use.
    16. If you issue a show ip interface brief command, every interface that you want to use
    should display up up.
    17. Type configure terminal.
    router(config)# prompt appears.
    Type config-register 0x2102
    Example router(config)#config-register 0x2102
    18. Issue the no shutdown command on every interface that you use.
    19. If you issue a show ip interface brief command, every interface that you want to use
    should display up up.
    20. Press Ctrl-z or end in order to leave the configuration mode.
    21. The hostname# prompt appears. Type ; write memory or copy running-config
    startup-config in order to commit the changes.

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