ZyXEL Communications MSAP2000 Firmware and Configuration File Maintenance, Filename Conventions

MSAP2000 AAMS User’s Guide

CHAPTER 31

Firmware and Configuration File Maintenance

This chapter tells you how to upload a new firmware and/or configuration file for the MSAP2000 AAMS.

31.1Firmware and Configuration File Maintenance Overview

The MSAP2000 AAMS’s built-in FTP server allows you to use any FTP client (for example, ftp.exe in Windows) to upgrade MSAP2000 AAMS or MSAP2000 AAMS firmware or configuration files. The firmware or configuration file upgrade is done during operation (run-time).

Note: Do not interrupt the file transfer process, as it may permanently damage your MSAP2000 AAMS.

Note: The MSAP2000 AAMS automatically restarts when the upgrade process is complete.

31.2 Filename Conventions

The configuration file (called config-0) contains the factory default settings in the menus such as password, IP address, VLANs and so on. It arrives from ZyXEL with a “dat” filename extension.

ZyNOS (ZyXEL Network Operating System sometimes referred to as the “ras” file) is the system firmware and has a “bin” filename extension. The configuration file has a “rom” filename extension. With many FTP and clients, the filenames are similar to those shown next.

ftp> put firmware.bin ras

This is a sample from a FTP session to transfer the computer file firmware.bin to the MSAP2000 AAMS.

ftp> get config-0 config.txt

This is a sample from a FTP session to transfer the MSAP2000 AAMS’s current configuration file

(including the configuration files of all the MSAP2000 AAMSs) to the computer file config.txt.

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