2 September 2010

Erasing or Clearing the Config on Your Netscreen Firewall

A short note on how to erase the configuration in your Netscreen firewall. Mainly so I can find it next time….

To clear a Netscreen config (erase flash) you need to ‘unset all’

netscreen-> unset all
Erase all system config, are you sure y/[n] ? y
netscreen->
netscreen-> reset
Configuration modified, save? [y]/n n
System reset, are you sure? y/[n]
netscreen-> reset
Configuration modified, save? [y]/n n
System reset, are you sure? y/[n] y
In reset …

NetScreen NS-200 Boot Loader Version 3.0.0 (Checksum: B48FB1B8)
Copyright (c) 1997-2003 NetScreen Technologies, Inc.

Total physical memory: 128MB
Test – Pass
Initialization – Done

Model Number: NS-208

Hit any key to run loader
Hit any key to run loader
Hit any key to run loader
Hit any key to run loader

Loading default system image from on-board flash disk…

Ignore image authentication!

Start loading…

…………………………………………………………..

Done.

Remember to use the default passowrd of user:netscreen password: netscreen

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About Greg Ferro
Greg is a Network and Security Architect / Designer / Engineer working freelance in the UK and worked for Resellers, DotCom's, Large Corporate's and Service Providers across a variety of products & Vendors. He prefers to work for end users, believes in the life cycle, total cost of ownership and that near enough is often good enough. He likes talking about himself in the first person to feel "royal", even when hosting the Packet Pushers Podcast on Data Networking. More about Greg at http://etherealmind.com/who-am-i/ and you can follow him on Twitter.

Comments

  1. andy says:

    i dont’ even get that far…it keeps asking hit any key to reboot your system and after that it comes up the same asking to hit any key to reboot your system…..this is after I upgrade the bootloader.

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