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If you post the output of &quot;show tech&quot; or &quot;show stacks&quot; then there's a tool Cisco has that may help diagnose...
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If you post the output of "show tech" or "show stacks" then there's a tool Cisco has that may help diagnose...

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According to Cisco:<br />
&quot;A vast majority of software-forced crashes are caused by Cisco IOS® Software bugs, although some platforms, such as the old Cisco 4000, may report a hardware problem as a software-forced crash. &quot;
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According to Cisco:
"A vast majority of software-forced crashes are caused by Cisco IOS® Software bugs, although some platforms, such as the old Cisco 4000, may report a hardware problem as a software-forced crash. "

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Hi<br />
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I have a 2611 w/ Wic-1B S/T and Wic-2T also 16/64 with IOS 12.3.12<br />
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This router is for lab practise, the problem i am having is that after finishing a lab and copying a clean config to startup-config a issue the reload command which prevents any problems caused by residual configuration, and it goes through the reload and when it gets to the point of showing the facts on the router like what ports you have etc and then &quot;%Software-forced reload&quot; &nbsp;and its frozen<br />
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This happens everytime a reload is issued. Does anyone have any comments or experience with this type of error?<br />
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Regards<br />
Mark
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Hi

I have a 2611 w/ Wic-1B S/T and Wic-2T also 16/64 with IOS 12.3.12

This router is for lab practise, the problem i am having is that after finishing a lab and copying a clean config to startup-config a issue the reload command which prevents any problems caused by residual configuration, and it goes through the reload and when it gets to the point of showing the facts on the router like what ports you have etc and then "%Software-forced reload"  and its frozen

This happens everytime a reload is issued. Does anyone have any comments or experience with this type of error?

Regards
Mark

%Software-forced reload Error

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. The most familiar type of routers are home and small office cable or DSL routers that simply pass data, such as web pages, email, IM, and videos between computers and the Internet. More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, use of software-based routers has grown increasingly common.