Prestige 310 Broadband Sharing Gateway

Step 1. Use telnet from your computer to connect to the Prestige and log in. Because TFTP does not have any security checks, the Prestige records the IP address of the telnet client and accepts TFTP requests only from this address.

Step 2. Put the SMT in command interpreter (CI) mode by entering 8 in Menu 24 — System Maintenance.

Step 3. Enter the command “sys stdio 0” to disable the console timeout, so the TFTP transfer will not be interrupted. Enter “command sys stdio 5” to restore the five-minute console timeout (default) when the file transfer is complete.

Step 4. Launch the TFTP client on your computer and connect to the Prestige. Set the transfer mode to binary before starting data transfer.

Step 5. Use the TFTP client (see the example below) to transfer files between the Prestige and the computer. The file name for the firmware is “ras”.

Note that the Telnet connection must be active and the Prestige in CI mode before and during the TFTP transfer. For details on TFTP commands (see following example), please consult the documentation of your TFTP client program. For UNIX, use “get” to transfer from the Prestige to the computer, “put” the other way around, and “binary” to set binary transfer mode.

TFTP Upload Command Example

The following is an example tftp command:

TFTP [-i] host put firmware.bin ras

where “i” specifies binary image transfer mode (use this mode when transferring binary files), “host” is the Prestige’s IP address, “put” transfers the file source on the computer (firmware.bin – name of the firmware on the computer) to the file destination on the remote host (ras - name of the firmware on the Prestige).

Commands that you may see in third party TFTP clients are listed earlier in this chapter.

10.4.4 Uploading Via Console Port

FTP or TFTP are the preferred methods for uploading firmware to your Prestige. However in the event of your network being down, uploading files is only possible with a direct connection to your Prestige via the console port. Uploading files via the console port under normal conditions is not recommended since FTP or TFTP is faster. Any serial communications program should work fine; however, you must use the Xmodem protocol to perform the download/upload.

Uploading a Firmware File Via Console Port

Step 1. Select 1 from Menu 24.7 — System Maintenance — Upload Firmware to display Menu 24.7.1

—System Maintenance — Upload Router Firmware, then follow the instructions as shown in the following screen.

Firmware and Configuration Maintenance

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