RE: Cisco Workaround

From: Adam Overlin (adam.overlin_at_content-mgmt.com)
Date: 07/31/03

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    To: "John Canty" <John.Canty@Vibro-Meter.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:59:00 -0700

    My network consultant is the one who has the cheat *** now, but all that
    was on there was how to upgrade the IOS. No other commands or anything. If
    my memory serves me right, all that was on there was:

    copy tftp flash
    <source IP where file is located>
    <source filename>
    <destination filename>

    At that point it starts the flash process. When it's done, just reboot and
    it *should* work. Obviously it did not.

    All the other config info is supposed to stay put. Which, when we do a
    "show run," everything did look the same as it was before. Just the IOS
    version changed.

    Adam

    -----Original Message-----
    From: John Canty [mailto:John.Canty@Vibro-Meter.com]
    Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:37 AM
    To: Adam Overlin
    Subject: RE: Cisco Workaround

    send us along a copy of this cheat ***, and I am willing to bet there
    might a few more answers to give :)

    //John

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Adam Overlin [mailto:adam.overlin@content-mgmt.com]
    Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:59 PM
    To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: RE: Cisco Workaround

    I just joined this list so I haven't seen the whole thread on this
    issue, thus my company's particular issue may have been discussed
    already, but I thought I would see if I could get some help anyway.

    Background:
    We have a Cisco 827 router and a PIX 506e locally. Router being in
    front of the PIX. We also have a co-location facility that we are
    connected via a constant VPN tunnel. There we have a PIX 515e. The two
    pixes are what control the VPN/encryption.

    Issue:
    The pixes don't run IOS so we didn't have to worry about upgrading
    those. However, the router does. So we upgraded the router to the
    latest version. Everything worked ok, except, the VPN tunnel. That got
    knocked out. Keep in mind that I am no Cisco expert. I did the upgrade
    with the help of a
    *cheat* *** that Cisco sent us. All I did was copy the information.
    I didn't really understand what I was actually typing into the console
    (we have another network consultant that is responsible for the
    "understanding part, although he didn't know why it wasn't working
    either). :)

    So after a little messing around we reverted back to the old IOS and
    everything was peachy. A couple days later they sent us another version
    to upgrade with and that did the same thing. Needless to say, we are
    still upgradeless.

    If there are any suggestions out there, I would really appreciate it.
    If I didn't give enough info, please let me know, and I will get you
    whatever you need (within my power of course).

    Thanks in advance,
    Adam

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