1721 Router Configuration - Advanced IP Services

[bill.brosius]

I just got my 1721 Router along with the Advanced IP Services feature pack CD. Does the Advanced IP Services come preloaded in the image or do I have to load it? The reason I ask is that I am using the SDM to configure the router and I can't access the VPN features. Do I need to activate this feature through the CLI? Or, do I need to load the Advanced IP Services?

Bill

[Richard Burts]

Bill

The easy way to answer your question is to post the output of show version. Part of that output will identify what code and feature set that you are running on the router. When we know that we will know whether you need to load Advanced IP Services from the CD.

Based on your description of the situation, particularly the inability to access VPN features makes me assume that the router is running code which does not support it and that you will need to load the IP Advanced Services code. We will knokw for sure when you post the output of show version.

HTH

Rick

[bill.brosius]

Rick,

Here is the output. I am assuming you are correct in that I will need to load the Advanced IP Services pack. That leads me to the next logical question. How do I go about doing that? I have the RSL software.

VERSION OUTPUT:

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Cisco IOS Software, C1700 Software (C1700-IPBASE-M), Version 12.4(1a), RELEASE S

OFTWARE (fc2)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Copyright (c) 1986-2005 by Cisco Systems, Inc.

Compiled Fri 27-May-05 21:31 by hqluong

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.2(7r)XM2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

1721PRIMARY uptime is 2 hours, 32 minutes

System returned to ROM by power-on

System image file is "flash:c1700-ipbase-mz.124-1a.bin"

Cisco 1721 (MPC860P) processor (revision 0x500) with 58405K/7131K bytes of memor

y.

Processor board ID FOC09335DJ2 (2464447733), with hardware revision 0000

MPC860P processor: part number 5, mask 2

1 Ethernet interface

1 FastEthernet interface

32K bytes of NVRAM.

32768K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)

Configuration register is 0x2102

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Thanks.

[Richard Burts · Accepted solution]

Bill

This output confirms that you are running the IP Base feature set. This feature set does not have support for VPN. So yes you will need to load the IP Advanced Services image.

I do not have experience with the RSL software so I do not have advice to offer about it. I would hope that it came with some kind of documentation that would include instructions or something that would guide you through using it.

My experience of loading new software images on Cisco routers is that I have put the new image on a server (can be tftp or can be ftp) and then copy the new image from the server into router flash (using tftp or ftp). If you do not find instructions on how to use the RSL software, I assume that you can copy the image from the CD to a server and then copy from the server to the router.

HTH

Rick