Instead of using boot net, why not have them do a 'config net' and choose the file
from the
server they want.
If the config is so screwed up you can't do that. An alternative would be to connect a
PC to
the console port, do a wri erase, then copy and paste the config they want from a text
file.
I use the above method in a lab at work. I save my config files, and can reload them
for
whatever testing I want to do.
Tom Lisa wrote:
> We have the same problem. Several different classes taking different semesters and
> leaving the routers in various configurations and register settings. Our solution
>has
> been to have default configurations on a TFTP server and each instructor is
>responsible
> for setting up the lab for whatever basic config they need, often having the
>students do
> it as part of the training experience.
>
> If any body has a better way, I would sure like to hear about.
>
> Tom Lisa, Instructor, CCNA, CCAI
> Community College of Southern Nevada
> Cisco Regional Networking Academy
>
> Ben Hockenhull wrote:
>
> > 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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