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ToggleWe will diagnose all cisco switches and routers.
We do Fix some software and hardware issues. Most commonly cleaning the switches and routers from any sensitive data. We do recycle the cisco switches!
Hardware Issues:
Broken Ports
No Power on PoE Ports
No Boot
No Power on Cisco Device
Software Issues
incorrect VLANs
Segmented Network
improper SSH encryption
How To Format your Cisco Switches:
- First Download a copy of your firmware from the cisco website https://software.cisco.com/download/home/. There are a few, IP BASE should be sufficient if you are a newbie.
- Power on the switch/router in “safe” mode and in the prompt you must type : flash_init
- Then Format the Flash. using format flash: command
- you can view the folder content using the dir command dir flash:
- set BAUD 115200 to enable fast transfer
- issue command copy xmodem: flash:name_of_downloaded_firmware_here.bin
- make sure to use xmodem to transfer the file over … the switch will be waiting the bin file transfer
- issue set BOOT flash:name_of_downloaded_firmware_here.bin
- unset BAUD
- then issue: boot
this should properly get you a clean flash on the switch.
For any other help contact us.