Cisco – Factory Reset the Cisco 1841 Router, Serial cable required

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Is it possible to connect to my Factory Reset Cisco 1841 router without the blue com cable? For instance is there a default IP address I can connect through one of the ethernet interfaces? I just did a "write erase" comman

Best Answer

You need to find a Cisco serial cable if you just did a wr erase. The next time this router boots, it will have no interface or password configuration on it, which means you're stuck with no access to it unless you log back on and do a wr mem to save the running configuration to nvram.

A factory reset requires a console connection because this erases the config on the router; you need console access to build the initial configuration.

9600-8-N-1 (no Flow Control)

Use PuTTY for serial terminal emulation; hyperterm is an abomination.

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