[AusNOG] Preparing 100s of routers for resale

Terry Singleton terry at dixstreet.com
Thu Apr 12 18:03:43 EST 2012


A comprehensive tech note on the issue

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps607/products_tech_note09186a00800c4546.shtml

TS

On 12 April 2012 17:27, Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc at mmc.com.au> wrote:

> 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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