Section 8.0: Advanced Security
8.1. ROMMON Security
CAUTION
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The 2600/3600 series (and newer versions of ROMMON for the 1700 series) all have what is known as a “ROMMON security” feature.
ROMMON security is designed to prevent a person with physical access to the router (2600 or 3600) from viewing the configuration file.
ROMMON security disables access to the ROMMON so that a person cannot set the configuration register to ignore the startup configuration. See the example that follows:
Router(config)#no service password-recovery ...
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