Azure

Azure Configuration for Dedicated IPv4 Address on Cisco Guestshell

The Problem There are cases where you need the IOS XE Guestshell to have a separate IPv4 address. A recent example for that is enrolling the router to the Webex cloud as a managed gateway. The Solution In the following steps I will show you how to configure the Azure VM for your virtualized router to make this work. Step 1 - Configure Azure There are many ways you can configure things on Azure, I’m going to show the steps on the web portal....

Snapshot of Cisco IOS XE command line interface showing the running version and configuration register.

Password Recovery for Cisco IOS XE on Azure

If you lose the password of a Catalyst 8000V or CSR1000V running on Azure, and you would like to perform a password recovery on it, this post might be for you. The Basics of Password Recovery There are useful techniques to authenticate an SSH session on a router without using a password. Yet, there are cases where we might have to use password authentication nonetheless. If the password is lost, the next step would be entering ROMmon and perform the usual configuration register change....