Chapter 17

Firmware and Configuration File

Maintenance

This chapter tells you how to back up and restore your configuration file as well as upload new firmware and a new configuration file.

17.1 Filename Conventions

The configuration file (often called the romfile or rom-0) contains the factory default settings in the menus such as password, DHCP Setup, TCP/IP Setup, etc. It arrives from ZyXEL with a rom filename extension. Once you have customized the Prestige's settings, they can be saved back to your computer under a filename of your choosing.

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

ftp> put firmware.bin ras

This is a sample ftp session showing the transfer of the computer file " firmware.bin" to the Prestige.

ftp> get rom-0 config.cfg

This is a sample ftp session saving the current configuration to the computer file config.cfg.

If your (t)ftp client does not allow you to have a destination filename different than the source, you will need to rename them as the Prestige only recognizes “rom-0” and “ras”. Be sure you keep unaltered copies of both files for later use.

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