So, basically, it's just an evil trick! I guess I'll categorize this as
another one of those things that are "Good to Know". :-)
| A well known trick of evil lab proctors making for fewer CCIE's in this
| world :->
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
| Priscilla Oppenheimer
| Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 11:01 AM
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: RE: Config Register Weirdness, again... [7:9181]
|
| 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
| ________________________
|
| Priscilla Oppenheimer
| http://www.priscilla.com
|
|
|
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