Cisco 877 - upgraded memory and everything works, except SSH!

growse · 6 Nov 2009 at 20:14

I just put a 128MB stick of RAM in my Cisco 877 and rebooted it. Everything works as normal, except for the fact that I can't log in via SSH. Specifically, I receive a 'connection refused' message when I try to connect. As I said, everything else (access lists, internet, logging) works fine.

Any ideas why this might be?

growse · 6 Nov 2009 at 22:54

Why would it have forgotten the ssh key?

growse · 7 Nov 2009 at 09:01

Thing is, I've got 5 millions console cables, and zero computers with serial ports. Need to go buy a USB->serial adapter before I can check things over the console. Appreciate what you're saying though, I've had cisco key generation problems before, but they've usually manifested themselves by not allowing an ssh client to authenticate, rather than flat out refusing the connection.

growse · 7 Nov 2009 at 16:06

Ok, this is weirdness - I've got a USB/Serial adapter, and when I plug it in it gets detected and the drivers installed. However, as soon as I plug the cisco console cable in, I get a 'USB device unplugged' sound in windows and the COM port disappears.

WTF?