08-29-2006 09:54 PM - edited 03-05-2019 12:01 PM
I STARTED A NEW JOB LAST WEEK AND THE ROUTER WE HAVE IS A CISCO 2801 AND SEEMS TO BE THAT THAT I DID NOT CHANGED ALL THE PASSWORDS FOR THIS DEVICE AND I THINK THE LAST NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR REMOTELY CONNECTED TO THE ROUTER BEING THAT I AM THE ONLY PERSON ALLOWED TO ENTER SERVER ROOM AND NOW I AM NOT ABLE TO ACCESS THE ROUTER,AND OUR WEBSITE IS DOWN INCLUDING LAN AND THE ONLY THING I COULD DO IS PING ONE OF THE ADRESSES AND TELNET ROUTER AND PASSWORD HAS BEEN CHANGED I'VE TRIED TO LOGIN USING SDM CONNECTING TO SWITCH PORT,CONNECTING TO 0-0 AND 0-1 WITH A CROSSOVER RJ-45 AND ALSO TRIED THE CONSOLE IS THERE ANYWAY I COULD HARD RESET THIS ROUTER., PLEASE IF SOMEONE HAS AN ANSWER I WILL APRECIATED BECAUSE I WANT TO GET OUT OF THIS SITUATION ASAP
08-29-2006 10:43 PM
Hi,
The only thing that you can do now is to recover the access back to the router by breaking the password and setting a new one.
Follow the procedures carefully as stated in the following url to reset the password.
HTH
-VJ
08-29-2006 11:11 PM
THANX FOR THE INFO
08-30-2006 03:11 AM
Hi,
Please rate the posts, if it was helpful to you in anyway.
-VJ
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