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By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:40:32 +0000

Hi Fuat,

As the article above states you need to know the Administrator password. The default is username is “admin” with a password of “setup”.

Short of that (four comments up);
“If you don’t know the username and password you need to figure out the management IP address. You can use WireShark and they try to solicit the IP address from the VPN router via a few ping or ARP requests. Once you have the IP address you should open a web browser and connect to the management interface where you should have the option of factory resetting the VPN router.”

Good Luck!

By: fuat yazici

fuat yazici — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:27:55 +0000

hi there, i just download vpnboot.zip recovery image version V06_05 from your side.
everything go well till to ask password. it did not accept ADMIN but accept ROOT. unfotunitly i do not know passwword for root. any help

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Thu, 19 May 2011 01:18:37 +0000

In reply to Juan.

Hi Juan,

That’s very odd… I believe the username/password is case sensitive, could that be it?

What terminal emulator are you using? I would try a different terminal emulator, I’ve seen some odd things where some software inserts CR/LF into the password field. See if that helps any. Sorry I can’t offer more help it should work.

Cheers!

By: Juan

Juan — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:54:35 +0000

Hi MIchael

thanks a lot for your response, i did it what you say and discovered the management IP address, i got into the web browser and reset the factory defaults.

The problem is that i am trying to access to the router with the default user: admin and password: setup, unfortunately not success, i tried to get again into the management ip address again and i think this was reset it because i cannot enter.

what else can i do?

thanks a lot.

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Fri, 13 May 2011 21:21:53 +0000

In reply to Juan Manuel.

Hi Juan,

If you don’t know the username and password you need to figure out the management IP address. You can use WireShark and they try to solicit the IP address from the VPN router via a few ping or ARP requests. Once you have the IP address you should open a web browser and connect to the management interface where you should have the option of factory resetting the VPN router.

Good Luck!

By: Juan Manuel

Juan Manuel — Fri, 13 May 2011 17:05:06 +0000

Hello Uri

i am trying to reset the contivity 1010 and i am getting the same image than URI

Ok!
After the booting of recovery image I have the next screen
Booting recovery image…

Welcome to the Contivity Extranet Switch
Copyright 1999-2002 Nortel Networks

Recovery Image Version: V04_07
Creation date: Apr 22 2002, 14:12:05

Date: 01/20/2011
Unit Serial Number:

Please enter the administrator’s user name: admin

Please enter the administrator’s password

however in the password i am typing setup and this doesn’t work, any idea why this is not working, i have tried with different passwords and not success

By: tim

tim — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:09:25 +0000

Understood, but in one of the earlier posts, it was mentioned that the cmos was directly accessed. I tried a recovery diskette but the 1700 would still not boot. I wanted to look at the device cmos. thanks…

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:19:31 +0000

In reply to tim. It's not really intended to be connected to a traditional keyboard and monitor. You connect a terminal or laptop serial port to the console port of the VPN router and utilize a VT100 terminal emulator to connect to it at 9600-8-N-1. Good Luck!

By: tim

tim — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:39:51 +0000

how do you connect keyboard and monitor to motherboard

By: tleu

tleu — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 04:03:02 +0000

In reply to tleu.

I am Sorry tleu77@yahoo.com

By: tleu

tleu — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:43:05 +0000

In reply to Urri.

Urii write to me tleu@yahoo.com

By: tleu

tleu — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:59:13 +0000

All has understood with NVR.

By: Urri

Urri — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:04:18 +0000

In reply to tleu. Flash card file system is corrupted and in normal mode operating system can't load from flash card. Can anybody send me image from working 1XXX device?

By: tleu

tleu — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:29:16 +0000

What FTP server you use for Contivity1010?

By: tleu

tleu — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:06:29 +0000

Nearly has not forgotten! The computer you connect through LAN 0.

By: tleu

tleu — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:04:32 +0000

Hi Urri!
You appoint to the computer IP 172.16.1.46 Mask 255.255.255.0 and through web the browser you come on 172.16.1.45 address you choose Restore Factory Configuration
You press button Restore. Contivity itself will reboot.

By: Urri

Urri — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:36:15 +0000

In reply to tleu.

– Interface Menu
0) Slot 0, Port 1, Private LAN
Management IP Address = 172.16.1.45, ( Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0 )
Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0
R) Return to the Main Menu

By: tleu

tleu — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:27:52 +0000

Hi Urri!
I apologise for the English. In the menu choose 1 copy and send the message.

By: Urri

Urri — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:49:32 +0000

In reply to Michael McNamara.

Ok!
After the booting of recovery image I have the next screen
Booting recovery image…

Recovery Image Version: V04_07
Creation date: Apr 22 2002, 14:12:05

Date: 01/20/2011
Unit Serial Number:

Please enter the administrator’s user name: admin

Please enter the administrator’s password:

Main Menu:
1) Interfaces
2) Administrator
3) Private Default Route Gateway*
B) System Boot Options
R) Reset System to Factory Defaults
E) Exit, Save and Invoke Changes

* Type 0.0.0.0 to delete.

Please select a menu choice (1 – 3,R,E):
I can’t find option to load software from ftp
What can I do?

By: tleu

tleu — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:37:37 +0000

Hi Michael!
Excuse for my English. I will try to explain more clearly. Flash card NVR is formatted, I tried to restore a software through Recovery Disk but it is impossible to me.
1) Restore Factory Configuration: cannot to restore
2) Restore Backups: I do not know on what file to specify an archive way as this archive is called? I have СD a disk with a software, and one more such worker NVR.
Thanks.

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:22:33 +0000

In reply to tleu. You need to boot the NVR with the recovery floppy (or if you have a flash based system you need to use the bootrom) and then select the appropriate recovery option. One option is to download the code to the system from a FTP server. Good Luck!

By: tleu

tleu — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:10:17 +0000

It is not possible to copy a folder in hard disk Сontivity1010 through ftp, deduces the message -501 Directory non existent or syntax error

By: Urri

Urri — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:47:42 +0000

Hi All!
Can anybody send me flash image from 1100 device?
Thnks!

By: Rick S

Rick S — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:14:14 +0000

Hi Michael,

You may be interested to learn that Avaya has done further analysis of our 2700 rebooting problem (after pushing harder for them to look at a new core file), and they report that the rebooting is caused by a known CR that affects all versions of 7 & 8 firmware. They are advising us to downgrade to version 6 code.

Rick S.