[AusNOG] Preparing 100s of routers for resale

[Jake Anderson]

I'd be trying to do it via network rather than serial
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.

On 12/04/12 21:48, hannah commodore wrote:
>> On 12/04/2012, at 20:10, Ashley Lowde <ashley.lowde at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:ashley.lowde at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> Are they all using the same (or only a couple of different) images? 
>>> If so I'd suggest
>>> replacing *all* the compact flash cards, then booting each one and 
>>> grabbing the appropriate
>>> image from a tftp server. You can then reboot it and clear the 
>>> config using password
>>> recovery mode if necessary.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> On 12/04/2012, at 20:09, Jason Leschnik <leschnik at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:leschnik at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> Do they have SSH?
>>> Do they have a similar auth config user/password?
>>
>> does the ssh info get stored elsewhere?
>>
>>
>> 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.
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