Chapter 3 ROM Monitor Commands
The Remote Annex 6300 must have an Internet (IP) address in its memory before it can load its operational image across the Ethernet via the IP protocol. Therefore, you must enter the IP address before booting the Remote Annex 6300 from a UNIX load host. If you do not define a subnet mask, the Remote Annex 6300 uses the generic mask for the specified IP address.
The Remote Annex 6300 tries to boot from a preferred UNIX load host. If you do not define a preferred load host, the Remote Annex 6300 broadcasts its load request and loads software from the first host that responds.
If the part of the IP address containing the network address differs from that of the preferred load or dump host, the host must be reached through a gateway. The addr command prompts you for this gateway’s IP address.
The Remote Annex 6300 uses the broadcast address parameter when loading a file. If this parameter contains a specific address (for example, 132.245.6.255), the Remote Annex 6300 uses only that address for broadcast. If the value is all zeroes (0.0.0.0), the ROM Monitor tries various combinations of broadcast addresses and subnet or network broadcasts. The Remote Annex 6300 broadcasts its request three times for each possible combination of broadcast addresses.
You can specify the IP encapsulation type as either ethernet for Ethernet, or ieee802 for IEEE 802.2/802.3. The default IP encapsulation is ethernet. Many systems have hardware Ethernet interfaces that are IEEE 802.3 compliant, but very few actually do 802.3 IP packet encapsulation.
Do not change this parameter unless you know absolutely that your Ethernet does 802.2/802.3 IP packet encapsulation. An incorrect IP encapsulation type prevents your Remote Annex from booting.
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