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Roll back changes on your Cisco router with simple command

What happens if you've made changes to your router's configuration and something goes wrong? How can you get back to where you started? David Davis tells you about a command that helps you roll back changes while minimizing downtime. Have you ever made changes to your Cisco router or switch and then needed to remove them? There are several ways to do this, but which is the safest and easiest method? Rebooting the router or switch isn't the answer. In fact, a simple command is a much better bet. Let's say you're implementing some changes on a router that has a large configuration file. Maybe something distracted you when you were making the change, but the new feature doesn't work when you go to test it. You just want to back everything out and start from scratch. How can you do that? You have a couple of options. If you haven't saved the configuration yet, you can just reload the router. This will work, but you don't want to have to reload a production r...