Disaster Recovery:How to Recover a Lost Password

• Your configuration register should be 0x2102; use “show version” command to check

• Reboot the router and apply the Break-sequence within 60 seconds of powering the router, to put it into ROMMON mode

  • 
    Rommon 1>confreg 0x2142
    Rommon 2>reset
  • Router reboots, bypassing startup-config file

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