[AusNOG] Preparing 100s of routers for resale

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

Make sure you delete the vlan.dat file in flash as well.   Don't think wr erase removes that and that'll leak info as well.

MMC


On 12/04/2012, at 5:16 PM, Keith Sinclair wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have used the following commands in the past.
> 
> #write erase
> #reload
> 
> Should work on older IOS, the write command has been deprecated on newer IOS I think.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Keith
> 
> On 12/04/2012, at 5:18 PM, hannah commodore <hannah at tinfoilhat.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> We've recently been contracted to receive hundreds of catalyst 3550 and 3750 switches that are being decommissioned.
>> 
>> Is there a way to quickly reset the nvram and sensitive information from flash?
>> 
>> Most of these will be resold, so they can't be left containing private information.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Hannah
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