Router Operation

Resetting the Router, Clearing the Passwords, and Clearing the Router

To Reset the Router

Press and release the Reset button on the back of the router. (Turning the power off, then on has the same effect as pressing the Reset button.) Resetting does the following:

Lights the Fault and Net Fail LEDs while the Reset button is pressed. (On some models, pressing the Reset button lights all LEDs.)

Clears the event log.

Runs a self-test that lasts about one minute. (Lights the Self-test LED during this period.)

Terminates whatever phase of operation the router is in and:

 

Boots the router, using the most recently saved configuration.

 

After the self-test, displays the ‘‘Waiting for speed sense’’ mes-

 

sage and waits for you to press a key to restart the router.

 

Uses the most recently saved configuration to initialize the router.

 

 

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Resetting does not affect any current password(s).

 

Pressing the Reset button discards any parameter values you may have

 

specified in either the Quick Configuration utility or the Configuration

 

Editor, but have not yet saved. That is, after a reset, the router initializes

 

itself with whatever configuration parameter values were last saved.

 

If the Self-test LED does not turn off within about one to three minutes

 

of when you press and release the Reset button there may be a

 

malfunction. In this case, check the status of the Fault and Net Fail

 

LEDs for the error, and turn to chapter 3, ‘‘Troubleshooting’’.

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