Is it possible to make a Cisco router (2821 and 2811 model today, possibly any member of the 28xx or 38xx family in the future) use a config file on the compact flash card or a generic USB thumb drive as the startup-config (ignoring whatever is in NVRAM)?
I'd like to use this as a mechanism to get configuration information onto a router straight out of the box, without having to serial into the console port at all.
The config will be pretty vanilla stuff, IP and speed assignment for F0/0, T1 controller configuration — nothing I would expect to require the "secure eToken" product.
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You still have to serial onto it to tell it to boot from CF - sorry.