3Com S330 manual

78CHAPTER 4: CONFIGURING PATHBUILDER S330/S310 MODULES, PORTS, AND APPLICATIONS

The Report Firmware Version screen displays the following information about the management processor active firmware (the upgradeable firmware currently being used by the MCPU):

Version—The released firmware version number. This is the version number that is displayed on the login screen.

Origins—The original engineering build number for the release.

If the Version and Origins release numbers are the same, then the release is not an official release but rather a Beta test version.

Who—The user login ID for this software build.

Date—The date and time that the build was made.

Company Name—3Com Corporation (or OEM partner if desired)

Product Name—The PathBuilder product for which this image was built:

PathBuilder S700, PathBuilder S600, PathBuilder S330, or PathBuilder S310.

In addition to the management processor firmware information listed above, the Report Firmware Version screen also lists the Boot Firmware Release—the version number of the boot firmware containing the bootstrap code used to bring up the operation firmware.)

Downloading New The PathBuilder S330/S310 module retains the operation firmware in a flash Management Processor memory bank located in the motherboard. On power-up or reset, the code image

Firmware is copied from the flash memory to the main memory.

The flash memory retains a copy of the operation firmware and can be upgraded using TFTP or the Xmodem protocol. TFTP is used if you are attached over the Ethernet interface through a Telnet session. Xmodem is used if you are attached to serial port 1 on a VT100 terminal.

We recommend that you avoid using the serial interfaces unless the Ethernet interface is unavailable, as a download could take 30 minutes at 9600 baud using the serial interfaces.

When downloading, the flash memory is overwritten with the new code. Once the firmware is successfully downloaded, a system reset brings up the new code.

The following instructions pertain to UNIX environments. You can also download firmware from a PC: from a TFTP application, configure for binary mode, specify the location of the image files, and use the PUT command.