<p dir="ltr">Indeed it was asinine. Problem solved. Tftp mode is obtained by starting with the power off and holding reset for 8 seconds as you power up the rocket. Factory reset is achieved by letting the device boot normally then holding reset button for 15 seconds. Works like a charm! </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 5, 2013 4:00 PM, "Ben West" <<a href="mailto:ben@gowasabi.net">ben@gowasabi.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>If by "router" you mean you're plugging both your laptop/desktop and the Rocket into an intermediate Ethernet switch or router, that shouldn't be necessary. I just use a regular patch cable between the LAN port on my Laptop and the "LAN" jack on the UBNT POE injector. The UBNT's auto-sense polarity on their LAN ports, I believe. No cross-over cables needed.<br>
<br></div>Also, do note that UBNT recommends setting yourself to address 192.1681.254, so the rocket in TFTP mode may only accept incoming packets from that address.<br><br><a href="http://wiki.ubnt.com/Firmware_Recovery" target="_blank">http://wiki.ubnt.com/Firmware_Recovery</a><br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Adam Longwill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adam.longwill@gmail.com" target="_blank">adam.longwill@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">When I put it into tftp I CANNOT ping it, which I find rather odd. set myself to static: 192.168.1.10 with 255.255.255.0 but the ping requests timeout. I'm having this problem with 4 seperate routers that all produce SSIDs when booted normally.<div>
<br></div><div>Any idea why this is and what's causing it? It should be super simple to flash them but... I can't even reach them in TFTP mode.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Ben West <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@gowasabi.net" target="_blank">ben@gowasabi.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">I've generally been able to put my Rocket M into TFTP/recover mode by holding down the reset button upon power-up for at least 15seconds.<br><br>If you are able to get the unit into TFTP mode (i.e. it responds to ping at address 192.168.1.20), you can effect a factory reset by then simply uploading an image to reflash it, whether with stock UBNT firmware or OpenWRT/Commotion.<br>
<br><a href="http://wiki.ubnt.com/Firmware_Recovery" target="_blank">http://wiki.ubnt.com/Firmware_Recovery</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Adam Longwill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adam.longwill@gmail.com" target="_blank">adam.longwill@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">This may seem like an asinine question but I'm stumped.<div><br></div>
<div>We lucked into 5 Rockets (M2's and M5's!) last week and I'm trying to reset them to factory defaults. As anyone who has played with ubnt routers knows, they're finicky about resetting.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What is the actual, honest-to-goodness, guaranteed-to-work way to factory reset a Ubiquiti Rocket WITHOUT LOGGING IN? I have watched every video on the web concerning this and read all Ubiquiti's documentation. Doesn't help.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Here's what I do:</div><div>Device is off. I hold the reset button in. I power on the device. Releasing after 8 seconds is supposed to put it in TFTP mode. Releasing after 15 seconds resets it completely.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The thing is, neither of these amount of times actually resets it and I can't ping it when the lights are blinking 1 and 3 then 2 and 4. Upon power cycling the router, the old SSID pops up on my wifi network monitor. It's been rather frustrating. Can anyone shed some light on how to reset a Ubiquiti rocket without logging in and resetting it?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div><br></div><div>Adam L.</div></div>
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