Did I buy bad hardware?

FLEOHB

I got 6 Cisco 1721 routers off ebay, tonight is my first time starting them up. I keep getting the message on the first one, SNMP-5-COLDSTART. and its stuck at that for ::looks at time:: 30 minutes now. Am I doing something wrong? Is it bad hardware? Can I get out of it cold starting somehow? I can't supply any outputs as the router will not take any.

EDIT:: It finally started up, my question now is what does a SNMP-5-COLDSTART do? Is it something that will happen often?

SteveO86

That message itself just means the router is doin a cold startup.

I'd try rebooting to boot it into ROMMON and get the IOS reloaded, if you have another copy of it

FLEOHB

Thanks Steve

CodeBlox

I believe I always get something similar on my 1721. I also had to reload IOS onto my router.