RE: Cisco Workaround

["Adam Overlin" <adam.overlin () content-mgmt com>]

My network consultant is the one who has the cheat sheet now, but all that
was on there was how to upgrade the IOS.  No other commands or anything.  If
my memory serves me right, all that was on there was:

copy tftp flash
<source IP where file is located>
<source filename>
<destination filename>

At that point it starts the flash process.  When it's done, just reboot and
it *should* work.  Obviously it did not.

All the other config info is supposed to stay put.  Which, when we do a
"show run," everything did look the same as it was before.  Just the IOS
version changed.

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: John Canty [mailto:John.Canty () Vibro-Meter com]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:37 AM
To: Adam Overlin
Subject: RE: Cisco Workaround


send us along a copy of this cheat sheet, and I am willing to bet there
might a few more answers to give :)

//John

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Overlin [mailto:adam.overlin () content-mgmt com]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:59 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Cisco Workaround


I just joined this list so I haven't seen the whole thread on this
issue, thus my company's particular issue may have been discussed
already, but I thought I would see if I could get some help anyway.

Background:
We have a Cisco 827 router and a PIX 506e locally.  Router being in
front of the PIX.  We also have a co-location facility that we are
connected via a constant VPN tunnel.  There we have a PIX 515e.  The two
pixes are what control the VPN/encryption.

Issue:
The pixes don't run IOS so we didn't have to worry about upgrading
those. However, the router does.  So we upgraded the router to the
latest version. Everything worked ok, except, the VPN tunnel.  That got
knocked out.  Keep in mind that I am no Cisco expert.  I did the upgrade
with the help of a
*cheat* sheet that Cisco sent us.  All I did was copy the information.
I didn't really understand what I was actually typing into the console
(we have another network consultant that is responsible for the
"understanding part, although he didn't know why it wasn't working
either).  :)

So after a little messing around we reverted back to the old IOS and
everything was peachy.  A couple days later they sent us another version
to upgrade with and that did the same thing.  Needless to say, we are
still upgradeless.

If there are any suggestions out there, I would really appreciate it.
If I didn't give enough info, please let me know, and I will get you
whatever you need (within my power of course).

Thanks in advance,
Adam


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