password recovery catalyst 4000 - no confreg?

[fragmoider]

Hi Guys,

Not exam related but figured someone might help me out here..I got a really cheap catalyst 4000 with supervisor engine II < $60 delivered and as usual it's as pulled out of the rack with a password.

Obviously I go to cisco and check the relevant document on resetting.

Problem is it appears that confreg is not present in the ROMMON prompt as displayed below

rommon 1 > ?
alias              set and display aliases command
dev                list the device table
dir                list files in file system
copy                copy file between file systems
del                delete a file
undelete            undelete a file
squeeze            remove deleted files
history            monitor command history
repeat              repeat a monitor command
sync                write monitor environment to Nvram
unalias            unset an alias
unset              unset a monitor variable
boot                boot an image from flash/network
clear              clear configurations, use 'clear help' for more info
help                print list of available commands
ping                ping an ip addr
promrestore        restore a corrupted boot ROM
reset              restart the system
set                show/set environment vars, use 'set help' for more info
show                show config parameters, use 'show help' for more info
sprom              display sprom contents
version            display version info


I need to get this into default config so I can mess with it in my lab but there seems to be no way to set the config-register to get it to skip the startup-config.

I've done this with all my 2500's and 4000 routers but this one has got me puzzled.

Thanks in advance.

[directly_connected]

With switches, password recovery is different. The Catalyst switches...hmmm...the 2500's are not
rommon1>confreg 2142
they are
rommon1>o/r 0x2142
That's how it's done on older equipment. But on switches, you hold a button in while powering on the switch, and copying the config to config.old, then something else...can't remember...look up password recovery on catalyst 2950...

Tim

[uzzaljss]

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