[cisco-voip] Reset 7960 to Factory Default

[Jon Carnes]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 08:22, Morris W. Stemp wrote:
> How does one reset the 7960 to factory default with factory default
> password?
> 
When I get phones in like this (that I basically need to nuke), I put
the phone on my lab network and reload the image I want to the phone.
Same as an upgrade.

I set my Linux server to alias the address of the phones configured
router and tftp server:
  ifconfig eth0:1 inet 192.168.128.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
  ifconfig eth0:2 inet 192.168.35.69 netmask 255.255.255.0

Then I setup the local TFTP server (which runs via xinetd on the linux
server) to run using the configured tftp interface. I tell the config
file to upgrade and then load the image I want.

I reboot the phone, it finds the linux server (using the ip of the
configured router) and then it finds the TFTP server on the server and
reloads the image.

I've been able to recover about 40 phones over the past year doing this.
I just had to do it this morning after one of my clients moved their
phone from skinny over to mgcp.... 
   "I came in this morning and it was like this..." 
   Right :-)

Jon Carnes
FeatureTel, North Carolina's Business VoIP provider
http://www.featuretel.com