The only thing I would suggest, because it has happened to me before is
this:
Is your hostname too long. Are you actually in the router subconfig menu
and just cant tell by the prompt?
-- Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Larrieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Cisco Mail List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 4:46 PM
Subject: Troubleshooting 101
> This has been an interesting afternoon. For my lunch hour I thought I
would
> review my miserable failure of an attempt to negotiate the Mentor Tech
Vlab
> 3040 ( IS-IS routing ) I kinda blew it last night. So I thought I would
try
> things on my own routers and see what happens
>
> So I open up my pod, and start configuring. Router 3 and router 2 get to
> talking integrated IS-IS ( IP over IS-IS )
>
> But router 1 does not want to cooperate. I enter the command router isis
> WORD The command is accepted. But I am not in a router subconfiguration
> mode. Swell. Try again. Command accepted. But no router subconfiguration
> mode.
>
> Being raised in a Microsoft environment, I reload the router and try
again.
> No dice. I erase the startup config, reload, and try again. No dice. Every
> time, the command is accepted but no router subconfiguration menu.
>
> At this point I believe I know:
>
> 1) it is not the configuration command entry.
> 2) it is not a minor corruption of the running IOS itself.
> 3) It should not be the IOS version, because I am running the same IOS
> version on each of my three routers.
>
> So next I start to get a bit desperate. I consider that maybe the flash
> image itself is corrupt. I try to re-image using router software loader,
and
> of course nothing but problems. After all the nice things I've said about
> RSL on this forum and others, it acts up. Yes I have a console cable
plugged
> into the right routers, and yes, I have an ethernet crossover cable
plugged
> between my PC and the router ethernet port. All right. Tweak and moan and
do
> TFTP rather than RSL. New image on router and no change. The command is
> accepted, but no router subconfiguration menu.
>
> All right. Maybe I'm nuts. On the other hand, when I upgraded the flash on
> these guys a few months ago this particular router was the only one where
I
> did not also upgrade the boot prom. Something come back to bite me?
>
> So I back down to another version of IOS, reload the router, and now
things
> seem to behave the way I would expect.
>
> In terms of troubleshooting methodology, anyone care to use this example
as
> a means of instruction? Any steps you think I overlooked?
>
> Chuck
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