Chapter 5

Initializing the Access Server

Overview

Introduction

This chapter describes how to initialize the access server. Initializing the access server reloads the software image.

Initializing the access server does not affect the configuration settings stored in NVRAM. To reset the access server to the factory-set defaults, you need to reboot the access server and press the appropriate switch on the hardware unit. For details about this procedure, refer to the hardware documentation provided with the access server.

In This Chapter

This chapter contains the following topics:

∙Preparing LAT Services for Initialization

∙Preparing Telnet Listeners for Initialization

∙Initializing the Access Server

∙Using NCP to Initialize the Access Server

∙Booting from the Network

∙Booting Using Console Commands

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