Reset CISCO 5505 ASA to Factory Default

Reset CISCO 5505 ASA to Factory Default

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You’ll need to use the Console Port to perform this procedure. Hook up the blue console cable to your DB 9 PIN serial port. Plug the other end into ‘Console’ port on the ASA 5505. The console port looks like a network jack. It’s above the USB ports and is surrounded with a blue color matching the console cable itself and says console right next to the port. Use hyper-terminal, click Start, Programs, Accessories, Communications, HyperTerminal, create a connection on Com1 using the terminal settings: 

    - Bits per second: 9600 

    - Data bits: 8 

    - Parity: None 

    - Stop bits: 1 

    - Flow control: None 

 After you open your connection through hyper-term, press enter a couple times. You should get a prompt similar to the following: ‘ciscoasa>’, or ‘nameofyourdevice>’ type ‘ena’ which is the abbreviation for "enable" to go to enable mode. Enter the password, or just press enter if there is no password set. type ‘config t’ type ‘config factory-default’ hit spacebar when the ‘more’ is displayed to get the next page of output. You want to get back to the prompt that looks like: ‘ciscoasa(config)#’ type ‘reload save-config noconfirm’ Make sure that the outside line is plugged into port zero, and your pc is plugged into any of the ports 1-7. The Cisco ASA has been reset to factory settings. DHCP is enabled on the Cisco device, and it’s internal IP address is now 192.168.1.1! Configure RDP Port Forwarding on a Cisco ASA 5505

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Fix Error 1603 when you install QuickBooks Desktop

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