CISCO 837 Help

[Piie]

Hi

I am hoping there are some Cisco guru's here that can help me to re-configure my 837 in bridged mode so I can controll the connection via my firewall (Endian).

I bought the router as part of a static IP uncapped account from IS - and as such, it was configured to auto connect to IS on pwer up. I got the complete boxed modem along with all the manuals as well as the blue serial cable. I don't have the password for the router, and all my attempts at following instructions from the web to reset the password via the serial cable and telnet.

Does anyone have a "noddy" guide to:
a) reset the password
b) change the router to bridged mode

Thanks for your help.

 

[JBFRobisher]

Hi

I am hoping there are some Cisco guru's here that can help me to re-configure my 837 in bridged mode so I can controll the connection via my firewall (Endian).

I bought the router as part of a static IP uncapped account from IS - and as such, it was configured to auto connect to IS on pwer up. I got the complete boxed modem along with all the manuals as well as the blue serial cable. I don't have the password for the router, and all my attempts at following instructions from the web to reset the password via the serial cable and telnet.

Does anyone have a "noddy" guide to:
a) reset the password
b) change the router to bridged mode

Thanks for your help.

I think it remains the property of IS - mine certainly has to be returned at the end of my contract. I *think* IS connect you to a VPN, so you might have issues connecting to IS if you do all that.

 

[Impregim]

(IS Cisco router:Locked!)--> X-Cable to nic (WAN-SIDE) on Endian--> ssh to Endian ( Putty )--> Run setup--> Under ADSL config enter 1 of your supplied static Ip’s & supplied DNS Ip's from IS, or set it to DHCP--> Tab to “done” –> exit setup –> log in to the webUI of Endian, see if its connected. IS. Supplied routers are locked, no way you can change the router password & settings on itself, belongs to IS.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

We use Megaweb for our uncapped ADSL, they also supplied a Cisco router. This means that I have to configure our Smoothwall to use a static public IP and not control the router.

But I don't complain - this puts authentication issues firmly back into the ISP's court as they supplied us with the router preconfigured.

So far we haven't had any serious issues.

But for me it is ironic that we have had a 64k diginet with a shedload of public IP's - but you cannot really use a 64k pipe...

...but the ADSL router have 5 public IP's, of which we're using one at the moment. My plan of action is, should we get blacklisted, simply to move to the next IP in the range, edit our DNS entries on ZoneEdit, and have a leisurely time in getting the previous IP unlisted.

It is a sheer luxury to have an 1Mb ADSL line instead of a dinky 64k line.

 

[Piie]

Thx for the replies.

The Cisco router is definately mine; I paid upfront for the router; it wasn't directly from IS, was resold via a smaller ISP that piggy-backed on IS. When the contract expired, they told me I could keep my router.

I don't want to connect to IS at all; I want to use the Cisco as a "normal" modem; no static IP's or any of that; just want to give endian a username/password for MWEB account and have it connect.

 

[Piie]

Hi I managed to reset the password on the Cisco, so I have full access to the router now via the serail maintenance cable.

Can anyone help me to now configure this thing to be a "normal modem"?

 

[Online Digital Solutions]

Here is a hint. But, you do so at your own risk ! !

You can break into the router, just use console, send short break command, use config-register 0x2041. Look this up in google for all the steps.

Remember to copy startup-config into running-config and to set the config-register back to normal. (Kids do not do this at home !) If you use our usage based ADSL, I will break it for you and configure it