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Blinking lights
when the router looses connection, it is best to just leave it as it tries to reconnect automatically
the blinking lights is the communication process and when connection is made for each section the light stays full on
there should be a on/off button that you just press to restart the searching process or a reset button under a small hole that you use a paper clip to gently press to reset
remember that it is not always the router that looses the connection but the server that it is connecting to
Breaking password on cisco 857w
When the router first starts booting you need keep hitting the break sequence which should be crtl+F6 and that should bring you to ROMMON mode. you should get a prompt rommon 1>, that means you did it right. Now you need to change the configuration registers to 0x2142 by typing "confreg 0x2142". then type reset to restart the router. It should now ignore the saved config. hit crtl+c to cancel the initial setup, type "enable" to get to the enable prompt. Next type "copy startup-config running-config" to copy the startup configuration to the running configuration. Next type "configure terminal" to enter global configuration mode. Now you can type "enable secret <password>" to change the password to what you want. Last you need to change the config registers back to 0x2102 by entering the command config-register 0x2102.
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