[c-nsp] ASR1001-X Password Recovery Failure

[Tim Densmore]

On 10/21/21 1:37 AM, Mark Tinka wrote:
>
> When I was moving from 3.x to 17.x (via 16.x and lots of ROMMON, FPGA 
> and CPLD drama), I recall some licensing agreements that were required 
> before the box could load the saved configuration. Did any of that pop 
> up on your console?
>
> I'm talking about the ASR1006 here. It's possible that the ASR1001-X 
> may have something different going on, as I did not hit a similar 
> issue on our ASR1002-X's.
>
> Mark.

It turns out that the issue was related to "controller mode" vs 
"autonomous mode".  Somehow deleting the config caused the the asr1001s 
to choose "controller mode" looking for an SDWAN controller.

Thanks!

Tim