Cisco 886 VA initial set up question - unable to connect to router

[hbuckow01]

Hallo,

I am trying to set up my Cisco 886 VA router, but after approx 5sec of "network identification" the network status on my PC is disconnected and I cannot access the router at 10.10.10.1 . The FE port blinks green during this time, then stops and the overall status is green.

I tried 4 different PCs, have DHCP enabled, all directly connected to one of the FE ports vie ethernet cabel. I also tried fixed IP setting (10.10.10.2 with 255.255.255.248, gateway 10.10.10.1), same result. I also tried hardware reset. And tried to connect via the configuration professional client that would just hang up.

Any idea what I might be doing wrong? Please be gentle if its a stupid question, I am new to networking

Thanks & regards

Helge

[cadet alain]

Hi,

connect to console and issue show run command and post output here.

Is it the first try and is it a new router?

Regards.

Alain.

[hbuckow01]

Hallo,

thank you for your response - the console doesn't connect either. Its is the first try and a new router.

Regards

Helge

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

If you reboot the router then you can get back to it with the same IP, username and password. Once you are in change the username and password.

HTH

Reza

[hbuckow01]

Sorry for not responding, I went on vacation

I finally figured it out: the factory setting of the 886 has no IP address assigned and all FE ports are shut down.

This means the only way to connect to it is like Alain suggest via console, then assign the IP address to VLAN1 and open the FE ports.

I realize now that the Cisco 8xx serie is not for retail customers, but requires learning the Cisco IOS CLI - I am gioing through this now step by step, long journey, especially because I have VDSL IPTV with T-online as my goal

The only thing that troubles me: the Cisco documentation that came with the product clearly stated that the router comes with pre-configured IP enabled Fastehternet port and suggested this as a method to do the initial set up. It would be nice to update those docs to reflect that the only way to connect is the console via COM and hypertm.

Thanks for the resoponses, this topic can be closed - I just added this response in case someone searches for the topic.