A student of mine just came into my office and posed this problem to me:
Given a set of lab routers, where a student is allowed to do anything they
wish to the router, how can things be set up so that the router is
automatically restored to a known default configuration at the end of the
student's session?
My initial response is that there's really no good way to do this, short
of special boot roms that would somehow intelligently tftpboot.
boot net statements won't work, as the student can remove them.
config register frobbing won't work, as the student can change the config
register, and, indeed, might have to do so to practice password recovery.
Given that the student can change config registers, write erase, set
enable passwords, reload, etc, how do labs manage their routers in these
situations? He seemed to think that Cisco Academy has some kind of
software that helps them with this problem, but I don't see how it's
possible.
Seems to me that all you can really do is have a staff of people to set
things right all the time.
Anyone have any ideas?
Ben
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Ben Hockenhull
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