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Re: (ASCEND) P75 upgrades
I have configured and deployed 20 Pipeline 75s. When upgrading my firmware to 6.0, I first do the tload then fsave then nvramclear. When I do this from a telnet session, it has worked without losing the original configuration 100% of the time. I did experience a failure one time but I was doing the upgrade from a terminal connection using hyperterminal. I don't know if it realy matters whether or not the connection to the pipeline is established via telnet or hyperterm but this has been my experience so far.
Semper Fi, Mitch
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From: Joseph Bridgewater <Joseph@dontspamaustintx.net.bungi.com>, on 5/12/98 7:10 AM:
I've done the fsave immediately after the tload and the P75 *still* don't
come back up without prodding via serial cable. Need to work with a client
to fix one this evening in fact (5.1A -> 5.1Ap9)
I do think the instructions have been amended as such, but it doesn't do
any good.
It seems (I think I read this here a couple month or so back) that if the
Pipeline hasn't been upgraded via tload before, it will not come back up.
Once it has, it will work as expected.
At 03:08 PM 5/12/98 -0700, Kevin A. Smith wrote:
>At 04:51 PM 5/12/98 -0400, Charlie Taylor wrote:
>>I've been upgrading a number of Pipeline75 from various versions of
>>5.0 to 6.0.2 via tloadcode. The steps are
>>
>> 1. fsave
>> 2. tloadcode hostname filename
>
>2.a fsave
>
>> 3. nvramclear
>>
>>This seems to work about 50% of the time. The other 50%, when the pipeline
>>reboots it comes up in the factory config. If I then put a serial cable on
>>it, go do diags and type "nvramclear" again, it reboots and comes up with
>>its correct (saved) configuration.
>>
>>Am I doing something wrong? Is there some trick to getting this to work
>>reliably? Clearly, having to go out and stick a serial cable on these
>>units to upgrade them is time consuming and should be unnecessary.
>
>I thought the upgrade process had been modified to include the fsave *after*
>the tload?
>
>
>
>Kevin Smith Ascend Communications...
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