User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Ascend Customer Service
- How to use this guide
- What you should know
- Documentation conventions
- How to use the on-board software
- Manual set
- Configuring WAN Connections
- Configuring IP Routing
- Introduction to IP routing on the Pipeline
- Managing the routing table
- Parameters that affect the routing table
- Static and dynamic routes
- Configuring static routes
- Specifying default routes on a per-user basis
- Enabling the Pipeline to use dynamic routing
- Route preferences
- Viewing the routing table
- Fields in the routing table
- Removing down routes to a host
- Identifying Temporary routes in the routing table
- Configuring IP routing connections
- Ascend Tunnel Management Protocol (ATMP)
- IP Address Management
- Connecting to a local IP network
- BOOTP Relay
- DHCP services
- Dial-in user DNS server assignments
- Local DNS host address table
- Network Address Translation (NAT) for a LAN
- Configuring IPX Routing
- How the Pipeline performs IPX routing
- Adding the Pipeline to the local IPX network
- Working with the RIP and SAP tables
- Configuring IPX routing connections
- Configuring the Pipeline as a Bridge
- Defining Filters and Firewalls
- Setting Up Pipeline Security
- Pipeline System Administration
- Pipeline 75 Voice Features
- IDSL Implementations
- APP Server utility
- About the APP Server utility
- APP Server installation and setup
- Configuring the Pipeline to use the APP server
- Using App Server with Axent SecureNet
- Creating banner text for the password prompt
- Installing and using the UNIX APP Server
- Installing and using the APP Server utility for DO...
- Installing and using the APP Server utility for Wi...
- Installing APP Server on a Macintosh
- Troubleshooting
- Upgrading system software
- What you need to upgrade system software
- Displaying the software load name
- The upgrade procedure
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Upgrading system software
The upgrade procedure
Pipeline User’s Guide Preliminary January 30, 1998 E-3
Features
i IP only (OSPF - no IPX, ARA)
p IPX only
x X.25
a Appletalk routing
1 Old hardware (e.g., b1.p50)
2 New hardware (e.g., b2.p75)
Examples
t.p22 Pipeline 220 T1
b2.p75 new Pipeline 50 and 75, and Pipeline 85
Note:
When downloading the newest version of software from the Ascend FTP
site (ftp.ascend.com/pub/Software-Releases), determine which file to download
by referring to the README file associated with each sub-directory.
On your Pipeline, the current load appears in the Sys Options status window. Tab
to the Sys Options window and use the down arrow to see the software load. For
example:
00-100 Sys Option
>Access Router ^
Load: b2.p75
Switched Installed v
Also see “Pipeline checks compatibility of downloaded files” on page E-11.
The upgrade procedure
Upgrading system software is a three- or four-part process, depending on the
Security profile that is currently activated. The steps required include the
following:
1
If necessary, activate a Security profile that allows for field upgrade.
2
Back up your configured profiles to your computer’s hard disk.
3
Download the system software to the Pipeline.
4
Restore your Pipeline configuration.