[j-nsp] erase configuration

[Jake Khuon]

On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 14:59 -0500, Brad Fleming wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2010, at 9:38 AM, David water wrote:
> 
> > What is equivalent of wire erase in JUNOS?
> 
> It depends.. load factory-defaults is good for certain things. If I'm  
> sending a router back to a retailer (after demo for example), I  
> typically drop to a shell and delete everything from
> 
> rm /config/juniper.conf*
> rm /config/rescue*
> rm /var/db/config/juniper.conf*
> rm /log/messages*
> 
> I'm guessing there are other things I should delete, but those will  
> get the most obvious ones (I think).

I guess if it's a demo unit then it probably won't have anything
especially sensitive but in all other cases, why not wipe (dd
from /dev/zero),reformat and reimage?  That's certainly something I'd do
before say putting it up for sale on ebay.

Nuke the site from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.


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