It's a start!

So, my brother kindly donated 3 cisco routers to me:

1. 800A without it's proprietary power connection
2. 1700 series missing only a kettle lead for power
3. 870 with power!

So looks like I'm starting with the 870. Of course, I don't have the enable passwords for them, so the recovery procedure will have to be followed, which I believe should be a trivial enough matter (hopefully!).

For the CCNA security, you have to use the SDM (security device manager) tool and luckily enough, the 870 works with it. I just have to install it on my laptop rather than the router as it only has about 26MB (sh flash: 27611136 bytes total) and with the IOS taking up between 12MB and 14MB and SDM being another 14MB on top of that, it's just not enough.

So, seems like I've just defined a couple of rules there:

1. Actual commands written to router will be in bold
2. Output of commands, which may not be the complete output but maybe only the relevant output, will be in italic

I think I should also mention that I have already installed "winagents tftp server 4" so I can eventually move files back and forth between my laptop and the router. So, with my trusty console cable, I think I'm ready to recover the 870.