Troubleshooting Network Boot Problems
Hints and Notes
This section contains the following important information:
•Setup Hints
•Implementation Notes
Setup Hints
This section contains hints for setting up an AN/ANH or ARN router.
•Nortel Networks recommends that you first install an AN/ANH or ARN router in the same site as your BootP server, Site Manager workstation, and other Nortel Networks routers to test the software image, configuration file, and routing path. This test provides you with the startup and troubleshooting experience you need to perform these tasks on routers at remote sites. After you perform the test, move the test router to the remote location, modify the configuration file for that router, and set up the new paths.
•After you build and test the remote router configuration file, make copies of it on the Site Manager workstation. Then, modify the copies for each AN/ANH or ARN router in your network, rather than starting over. To avoid
•Before you set up the routing paths, it may be easier to isolate BootP and TFTP configuration errors on the network if you upgrade all Nortel Networks routers between the AN/ANH or ARN routers and the BootP server to Version 7.80 or later.
•If you are using
•If the AN/ANH or ARN router or an upstream router will have small routing or forwarding tables, you can increase performance by reducing the local memory allocation and allocating more global memory.
•If the AN/ANH or ARN router or an upstream router will have large forwarding tables (for example, more than 500 servers), you might want to increase the local memory allocation.
