[c-nsp] New to CCNA [ My first router 2501 :) ]

[Huzaifah Ahmed]

Hello everybody,

As you see I am new to Cisco and this is my first official post to this list. :) I recently purchased a router from ebay and I am a lill un sure of the errors shown below.

Can anyone advise me how to get rid of them. Will highly appreciate your help.

Thank you in advance.

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Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 2500 Software (C2500-I-L), Version 12.0(14), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Tue 31-Oct-00 23:59 by linda
Image text-base: 0x0302F438, data-base: 0x00001000
ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 11.0(10c), SOFTWARE
BOOTFLASH: 3000 Bootstrap Software (IGS-BOOT-R), Version 11.0(10c), RELEASE SOFT
WARE (fc1)
2501A uptime is 4 hours, 4 minutes
System restarted by power-on
System image file is "flash:c2500-i-l.120-14"
cisco 2500 (68030) processor (revision N) with 6144K/2048K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 26586640, with hardware revision 00000000
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
1 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
2 Serial network interface(s)
32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
8192K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)
Configuration register is 0x2102
-------------------------------- RELOAD COMMAND ---------------------
Proceed with reload? [confirm]
04:21:56: %SYS-5-RELOAD: Reload requested
System Bootstrap, Version 11.0(10c), SOFTWARE
Copyright (c) 1986-1996 by cisco Systems
2500 processor with 6144 Kbytes of main memory
%SYS-4-CONFIG_NEWER: Configurations from version 12.0 may not be correctly under
stood.
F3: 5656044+80240+423840 at 0x3000060

A LOT OF OTHER STUFF .................

cisco 2500 (68030) processor (revision N) with 6144K/2048K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 26586640, with hardware revision 00000000
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
1 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
2 Serial network interface(s)
32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
8192K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)
%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/network-confg (Timed out)
%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/cisconet.cfg (Timed out)
%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/2501a-confg (Timed out)
%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/2501a.cfg (Timed out)

Press RETURN to get started!

00:00:21: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Ethernet0, changed state to up
00:00:21: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Serial0, changed state to down
00:00:21: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Serial1, changed state to down
00:00:22: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Ethernet0, changed sta
te to down
00:00:22: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Serial0, changed state
 to down
00:00:22: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Serial1, changed state
 to down
00:00:26: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configur
2501A>
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These errors come in If I leave the router connection on console idle for a long time.

2501A#
2501A#
%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/network-confg (Timed out)
%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/cisconet.cfg (Timed out)
%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/2501a-confg (Timed out)
%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/2501a.cfg (Timed out)
2501A#

Huzaif Ahmed