Designed for deployments outside the wiring
closet, Catalyst 2960 Series Switches offers Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet
connectivity with LAN services for midmarket and branch office networks. They are
standalone fixed-configuration switches, which are offered in two categories: Cisco
Catalyst 2960 Series with LAN Base software and Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series with
LAN Lite software
Cisco
Catalyst 2960 Models with LAN Base Software
Catalyst 2960 Models with LAN Lite Software
How to Recover Cisco 2960 Password and reset it to Factory Default with Mode Button? This question is always popular while using catalyst 2960 series. So here we collect some experience of resetting 2960 series from Cisco users. Let’s see the details…
How to Reset Cisco 2960 to Factory
Default?
Step1. Connect
up your console cable and power on the switch, whilst holding down the “mode”
button:
This interrupts the boot process before the
Flash file system can initialize, and after a short while (continue holding the
“mode” button) you will see the following prompt:
Using driver version 1 for
media type 1
Base ethernet MAC Address:
4c:30:2d:81:ef:80
Xmodem file system is
available.
The password-recovery
mechanism is enabled.
The system has been
interrupted prior to initializing the
flash filesystem. The
following commands will initialize
the flash filesystem, and
finish loading the operating
system software:
flash_init
boot
switch:
Step2. Initialize
the flash file system with the command: flash_init
switch: flash_init
Initializing Flash...
mifs[2]: 10 files, 1
directories
mifs[2]: Total bytes :
1806336
mifs[2]: Bytes used :
612352
mifs[2]: Bytes available :
1193984
mifs[2]: mifs fsck took 1
seconds.
mifs[3]: 0 files, 1
directories
mifs[3]: Total bytes :
3870720
mifs[3]: Bytes used : 1024
mifs[3]: Bytes available :
3869696
mifs[3]: mifs fsck took 0
seconds.
mifs[4]: 5 files, 1
directories
mifs[4]: Total bytes :
258048
mifs[4]: Bytes used : 9216
mifs[4]: Bytes available :
248832
mifs[4]: mifs fsck took 0
seconds.
mifs[5]: 5 files, 1
directories
mifs[5]: Total bytes :
258048
mifs[5]: Bytes used : 9216
mifs[5]: Bytes available :
248832
mifs[5]: mifs fsck took 1
seconds.
-- MORE --
mifs[6]: 566 files, 19
directories
mifs[6]: Total bytes :
57931776
mifs[6]: Bytes used :
28429312
mifs[6]: Bytes available :
29502464
mifs[6]: mifs fsck took 21
seconds.
...done Initializing Flash.
Step3. Delete
the config.text file from the flash directory:
switch: del
flash:config.text
Are you sure you want to
delete "flash:config.text" (y/n)?y
File
"flash:config.text" deleted
Step4. Delete
the vlan.dat file from the flash directory:
switch: del flash:vlan.dat
Are you sure you want to
delete "vlan.dat" (y/n)?y
File
"flash:vlan.dat" deleted
Step5. Reboot the switch and you're done:
switch: boot
Loading "flash:c2960s-universalk9-mz.122-58.SE2.bin"...
--- System Configuration Dialog ---
Enable secret warning
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In order to access the device manager, an enable secret is required
If you enter the initial configuration dialog, you will be prompted
for the enable secret
If you choose not to enter the intial configuration dialog, or if
you exit setup without setting the enable secret,
please set an enable secret using the following CLI in configuration
mode-
enable secret 0 <cleartext password>
----------------------------------
Would you like to enter the initial configuration dialog? [yes/no]:
% Please answer 'yes' or 'no'.
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