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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I agree, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I think the time it would take to plug in a network cable you might just want to plug in the console cable instead. Too many variables if you actually have to log into the box, you’re going to spend more time trying to figure out the login and looking for the device on the network then you would just blowing it away via rommon/confreg.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";color:gray'>Thomas Sulkiewicz<i><br></i></span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";color:gray'>Senior Network Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:#E10000'>TOSHIBA (Aust) Pty Ltd | </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Management Information Systems</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";color:gray'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";color:red'>p: </span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";color:gray'>+612 9887 6599</span><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";color:red'>m:</span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";color:gray'> +614 5000 4022<br></span><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";color:red'>f:</span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";color:gray'> +61 2 9815 6285<br></span><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";color:red'>e:</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";color:gray'> </span></b><u><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif";color:blue'><a href="mailto:tsulkiewicz@toshiba-tap.com">tsulkiewicz@toshiba-tap.com</a></span></u><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Eric Pinkerton<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 13 April 2012 11:59 AM<br><b>To:</b> Jake Anderson; hannah commodore<br><b>Cc:</b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Preparing 100s of routers for resale<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Depends if you already know the IP’s and credentials of these devices, or can knock up a script to guess the IP, and credentials from a set list,. If not I think it would be more practical to script a console boot/break/password recovery and use a terminal server to scale it if needs be.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Also you need to weigh up the time it takes to get a junior to do this manually against the value of spending time attempting to automate it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Might warrant a different approach if you had a few thousand to do rather than a few hundred…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jake Anderson<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 13 April 2012 11:14 AM<br><b>To:</b> hannah commodore<br><b>Cc:</b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Preparing 100s of routers for resale<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I'd be trying to do it via network rather than serial<br>just because by serial your only going to be able to do a few at a time and the boot time etc for these things can be excessive.<br><br>On 12/04/12 21:48, hannah commodore wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On 12/04/2012, at 20:10, Ashley Lowde <<a href="mailto:ashley.lowde@gmail.com">ashley.lowde@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Are they all using the same (or only a couple of different) images? If so I'd suggest<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>replacing <b>all</b> the compact flash cards, then booting each one and grabbing the appropriate<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>image from a tftp server. You can then reboot it and clear the config using password<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>recovery mode if necessary.<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I don't have access to these devices yet, but from previous experience it would likely be a single basic 12.4 image with just vlan/port/trunk port/snmp configs<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>On 12/04/2012, at 20:09, Jason Leschnik <<a href="mailto:leschnik@gmail.com">leschnik@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></span><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Do they have SSH?</span></span><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><br><span class=apple-style-span>Do they have a similar auth config user/password?</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>does the ssh info get stored elsewhere?</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks all for the suggestions. Seems automating a serial console session will be the best option for this task. I'll just script a Linux netbook so I can churn through them. <o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>AusNOG mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:windowtext'>Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering.<br><a href="http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg">http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><br><a href="https://login.mailguard.com.au/report/1EwBfoAYZk/2XzIImWARP5bjKUcY4mLlJ/1.002">Report this message as spam</a> <br> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p>Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering.<br><a href="http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg">http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'> <br> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div>This message is for the named person's use only. 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