I will work on some of those but I've run into another problem now.

First, it seems my 2nd router isn't holding the setup information.  Could this be due to a defective NVRAM chip?  Or could it be that my IOS has become corrupted and needs to be reinstalled?  I figured most of this stuff was kept on the Compact Flash Card but figuring doesn't give me the real answer.  Currently I am running 12.4(3f) and it is no longer downloadable.

I've been to some page where I can download some MD IOS file also called Mainline?  Is this the correct file I would want to download if I wanted to update/reinstall the IOS on my router? The latest 12.4 rev level for a 2801 looks to be 25b. Of course I do not have a current Agreement for this router so is there anyway I could pull the IOS off of the other router?

A couple of other things.  Some of those commands post my passswords so I need to go through the logs and verify none of those show up.

Secondly when I did happen to run
"show controller t1"

NOTHING came up.

I'll get back to you with all the other stuff in a bit.

Thanks for the quick reply.

BTW I'm NOT looking for free IOS downloads.  I just want to get this thing working in it's most basic function so I don't have to climb a 11,000ft mountain every time the stupid power goes out.

So here are the two boot sequences I pulled off hyperterm.  The bottom one has no issues saving configurations the top one won't even save the configuration when it just got inputted 10 seconds ago.

I should probably move this portion of the thread elsewhere huh?

So here are the two boot sequences I pulled off the routers.

See how the bad one has more information between the startup sequence portion before the compact flash card is accessed?

What do you mean by "router does not hold configuration"? Does it go back to default configuration on reload? If so, your config register

might be set incorrectly. it should be 0x2102 for the router to load the configuration on boot. You can see the config register value  in "show ver"

the command would be "config-register 0x2102" in global config mode or something similar (use tab)

Yes.  If I configure the machine then reboot it the configuration is now gone.

BUT the other thing is if I configure the machine and then use it I still cannot access it via the SDM program.  Meaning that even after I JUST configured it, the darn thing is not retaining the config for some reason....

You have been told why the router does not keep configuration.

Do yourself a favor anf stop using SDM. It prevents you from learning and produces confusing an buggy configurations.

p.bevilacqua wrote:
You have been told why the router does not keep configuration.
Do yourself a favor anf stop using SDM. It prevents you from learning and produces confusing an buggy configurations.

Did I say something wrong in my previous post?

I'm not using SDM to try and configure the router I'm using SDM as a tool to verify that the router is maintaining its IP address info.

Which it is not.

I am not sure how SDM reads the configuration but did you try what I mentioned in my previous post? Also,

can you compare a "show start" and "show run" immediately after a "wr mem"?

Allright so the config-register was totally at some other point 0x804? iirc.  Anyway got that changed and now it boots great.

So now that we are back on track I am still at the point where my CSU/DSU's are not allowing me to cross communicate between both routers.

I'll look back at yoru earlier posts and post some screens from Hyperterm (as I am unsure as to how to pull the data out of hyperterm that isn't all gibberish) on what you requested before the memory config problem.

Really apprieciate all the help you are giving me m8.

always use putty, never hypertem.

Then you take "show controllers t1", post together with config.

Note the crossed cabel must use T1 pinout, NOT ethernet.

p.bevilacqua wrote:
always use putty, never hypertem.
Then you take "show controllers t1", post together with config.
Note the crossed cabel must use T1 pinout, NOT ethernet.

I am currently using this pinout with the TX and the RX reversed on the second plug

T1/E1 Pinout (RJ-48C)

T1/E1 wiring may use either a RJ45, DB15 or BNC connectors. The pinout shown uses RJ45 connectors - its formal name is USOC RJ-48C and is defined in ANSI T1-403-1989. T1 is a North America (primarily) digital service providing 1.544 Mbps. E1 is a European/Rest of World standard providing digital service at 2.048 Mbps. CATegory 5(e) cabling is used to provide balanced pairs. The color coding for Cat 5(e) cabling may be 568A or 568B.

Here is the show service-module and show interface for the first router  The other thing is when i type show interface t1 it returns nothing.  no errors stating that i typed it wrong.  Just a return line and then the router# waiting for me to type something.

I really hope the SS's aren't innapropriate for the advice you are giving me.  Meaning - instead of being able to see one long stream of info all you see is a interrupted sequence...

Let me know if it's a pita maybe I can figure something else out.

This doesn't give us much information except that the interfaces are up and should be able to ping. Capture a "show tech" from bo

th the routers and upload.

Do a "term len 0" and then turn on text capture using the instructions in the following link

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps233/products_tech_note09186a00800a6bc0.shtml

Once the capture is done, do a "show tech" which would dump all the information into a text file. Follow the same for the other router and upload.