[c-nsp] Cisco3750 %AAA-3-BADMETHOD

LM asturluismi at gmail.com
Wed Aug 4 11:57:59 EDT 2010


Never saw this before, we saw here error cosmetic AAA messages over 
3750G and 12.2.44SE1 and SE2
Not this one.

El 04/08/10 14:07, Chris Lane escribió:
> All,
>
> Running a C3750 48TS on 12.2(35)SE2 . Used very simple AAA method for
> authentication with radius, 4 lines of AAA.
> Happened to log into router today only to notice that i can't configure
> device, my credentials don't match and i have this in the log
>
> %AAA-3-BADMETHOD
>
> This entry is on AUG 2nd, and the last NVRAM change was done on July29th -
> and it was simple vlan addition.
> The most alarming problem was when i did a SHOW RUN, there were almost 20
> AAA commands that myself or the 29th UPDATED CONFIG did not add.
> On Aug 2nd the log does not show any user access just the above with a bunch
> of memory dumps, as it appears. Unfortunately i did not grab the LOG itself.
> ugg.
>
> Issue, i figured by rebooting the last NVRAM change on JULY 29th i would
> regain my original config from the 29th and remove these randomly issued
> commands. This is a remote router fyi:
> router did not respond well to reload and did not come back.  Oh and on
> reboot i did NOT save changes to Config preserving July 29th NVRAM change.
>
> Has anyone Seen such wierd oddity?
>
> I have to repeat, the logs do not indicate user Access to the box, which the
> box does log, on Aug 2nd, just the above error with 2 full log lines full of
> what appears to be a memory dump of some sort.
>
> And lastly Cisco's website shows this for the Above error:
>
> AAA-3-BADMETHOD : Cannot process [chars] method [int]
>
> Explanation    A method list function has encountered a method list that was
> unknown or that could not be processed.
>
> Recommended Action    Copy the error message exactly as it appears on the
> console or in the system log, contact your Cisco technical support
> representative, and provide the representative with the gathered
> information.
>
>
>
> Wow, thats helpful  ;-)
>
> Much regards
>
> Chris
>    


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