A well-known trick of evil students making trouble for the Cisco networking
instructor. ;-)
Priscilla
At 01:25 PM 6/20/01, John Neiberger wrote:
>This was happening on a 2621 running 12.1(5)T5 but I saw something
>similar happen on a 2650 running 12.2(2)T. I discovered that the cause
>of the behavior was a speed change on the console port in the config.
>Somehow this was changing the config register settings and those changes
>didn't always make much sense. I changed the speed back to 9600 and the
>config register was set back to 0x2102.
>
>John
>
> >>> "Kane, Christopher A." 6/20/01 10:58:11
>AM >>>
>I haven't seen that before. What series of router is it? Could it be a
>jumper setting?
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Neiberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 10:47 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Config Register Weirdness, again... [7:9181]
>
>
>Okay, what's the deal here? Look at this output:
>
>Configuration register is 0x2102 (will be 0x4000 at next reload)
>
>RARAP#conf t
>Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
>RARAP(config)#config-reg 0x2102
>RARAP(config)#end
>RARAP#sho ver
>Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
>
>[lotsa trimming]
>
>Configuration register is 0x2102 (will be 0x3922 at next reload)
>
>Why is the config register going to reload at 0x3922?? I just set the
>darn thing to 0x2102 and you can see that change occurred. I was
>trying
>to get rid of the 'will be 0x4000 at next reload'. I have no idea why
>that was there to begin with but it should not be there. Is this
>something that I'll have to fix from the console port? I can't reload
>the router because it was put into production this morning. Why is it
>set to 0x3922?
>
>I'm guessing that the guy who installed this was playing around with
>the confreg utility in rommon and we'll have to go back to rommon to
>fix
>it.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>John
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