The terminal filled with text, but it wasn't the usual boot log.
But then, something changed.
And at the very bottom, a new line he had never seen before:
Marco stared at the prompt.
Marco’s heart became a kick drum. He slammed his finger on the Ctrl+Break sequence to interrupt the boot. Nothing. He yanked the console cable. The text kept scrolling on his laptop screen, as if the router was now speaking directly through the Wi-Fi, through the air itself.
The console continued.
He had one weapon: .
reload
The output was flawless. Cisco IOS 15.7(3)M8. 87,000,000 bytes of memory. Uptime: 2 minutes.
The router’s normally silent fans spun up to a jet-engine whine. The temperature in the closet rose by ten degrees. And the amber LED on the front panel turned blue .
Loading C2900-universalk9-mz.spa.157-3.m8.bin from 192.168.1.100: !
