Nortel Networks 114200-E manual To use the directed netboot feature, Getcfg

Starting the ARN

To use the directed netboot feature:

1.At the command line prompt, enter the ifconfig command provided to you by your network administrator and press the Return key.

The following is a sample command: ifconfig com1 9.0.0.2 255.0.0.0 9.0.0.3

For more information about the ifconfig command, see “Using the ifconfig Command” on page A-2.

2.Enter the bconfig commands provided by your network administrator and press the Return key.

You must enter one bconfig command to specify the location of the software image, and another to specify the location of the configuration file.

The following are sample commands:

bconfig image network 192.32.5.8 /usr/arnstartup/arn.exe bconfig config network 192.32.5.8 /usr/arnstartup/config

For more information about the bconfig command, see “Using the bconfig Command” on page A-7.

3.Type the following command and press the Return key to verify the configuration you specified in Step 3:

getcfg

The get configuration data command getcfg shows the location of the boot image file and network configuration file, the interface configuration settings that you specified using the ifconfig command, as well as the TFTP server information and file paths that you specified using the bconfig commands.

Verify the interface configuration, as shown in Figure 2-1.

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