EN - cast away in ROMMON

Hey,

today I was cought up in rommon in a router configuration.
I had to config 3 2651 routers. One of them had a corrupt IOS file and booted to ROMMON only.

I feares I had to use a xmodem connection to get an new IOS loaded to the flash, but luckily there is a posibility to use TFTP in ROMMON. To get the following commands working, the IP connectivity must be working, eg Routing from/to the TFTP server.

Your prompt should look like: rommon 1 >
Now you have to assign all essential informations to it:
IP_ADDRESS=192.168.100.1
IP_SUBNET_MASK=255.255.255.0
DEFAULT_GATEWAY=192.168.100.2
TFTP_SERVER=192.168.100.2
TFTP_FILE=c2600-i-mz.123-26.bin
tftpdnld

The last command starts the transfer and if its finished enter reset.

Now the router is booting with its brand new IOS.

have fun,
Zif