Hi folks-
the conversation title says it all- I need a smidgeon of help on the above device.
I've inherited (by default) a smallish network that I'm in the process of mapping. We lease a line for internet and external email provision- the NTU has a serial connection to a Cisco 2500 router. The router connects to our side of things via ethernet.
In the past few days, the leased line died(?-at any rate, we lost external connectivity)- the engineer's having a hard time isolating the fault. I was advised to power cycle the router and the NTU when the problem first emerged.
AFAIK- the router has preserved it's configuration when I did this. However- when I telnet to it from a pc connected to it's 'console' port, the date shows 1993...of course, it may always have shown 1993, but the previous 'administrator' didn't like writing anything down, hence why I've got to map everything! The prompt looks okay, ie, it's calling itself by the name given to it, but i'm wondering if it may have lost a routing table or some other config data.
Does this sound likely? Do I have to do anything else after power cycling, ie, re-enable interfaces?
Of course, I can't login as exec to view any details, 'cos no-one knows the exec password...nightmare! (I've got the instructions for resetting the pw, btw, and will get round to this in time.)
apologies for the ramble- any help gratefully appreciated-
0r8it
