Hi all! I am fairly new to the cisco world, I just got my ccent about a month ago and have been working toward ICND2.
I am having issues with a lab router, an 1841 router that was given to me in the current condition.
The behavior im seeing is as follows,
- Upon power on the sys power and sys act lights come on solid green and do not go out or flicker at any point.
- the CF and AIM leds on the rear panel light solid green and show no flicker.
- A console line to router shows no activity- Not even scrambled text.
- Connecting problem router to a second KNOWN working router via fa interface results in all three interface lights coming on solid on both devices, regardless of ports used.
- Sh ip int brief on good router shows layers 1 and 2 are up.
- "sh cdp neighbor" on the good router shows nothing connected while there is a crossover cable linking it directly to the problem router and i have green indication for link.
- I have tried check the CF card to verify an IOS image is loaded, and i have booted another router from the card out of the bad router so the IOS image is fine.
- I have tried changing the baud for the terminal emulator to no effect.
It seems like this is beyond my knowlege level thus far and I would appreciate any help. I have a speculation as to the issue but would like a second opinion.
Later i will use an IP scanner on my laptop connected directly to one of the router fa ports at a time to see if i can find any address assigned to a port. if i find that it opens the possibilty for telnet.
Any ideas on what the issue is preventing my boot? Any known ways to fix it?
