[AusNOG] Preparing 100s of routers for resale

[Thomas Sulkiewicz]

Make sure you squeeze the partition too, 
..otherwise the data will be still on there, just marked as deleted. 

Thomas Sulkiewicz
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-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Moyle-Croft
Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2012 5:57 PM
To: Keith Sinclair
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Preparing 100s of routers for resale

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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