User`s guide

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Distributing Firmware or Conﬁguration (Distribute)

Use the distribute option to send the ﬁrmware or conﬁguration from one

Aironet Wireless Client to all other Aironet Wireless Clients on the

infrastructure. By using the distribute option the time needed to perform

ﬁrmware upgrades or make global changes to the conﬁguration is greatly

decreased.

Once a new version of the ﬁrmware has been loaded into a single Airo-

net Wireless Client, (using Ftp or Bootp) or the conﬁguration has

changed, use the distribute option to upgrade all other units.

If you are distributing a conﬁguration, examine the parts of the unit’s

conﬁguration that will be distributed by executing the command “conﬁg-

uration dump distributable standard”.

The control option controls how the remote units respond to a request to

send a conﬁguration or ﬁrmware.

n None: The unit will never respond and cannot be loaded by another

unit using the distribute command.

n Any: The unit will always respond. It is up to the distributing unit to

determine whether to load the local unit.

n Newer: The unit will only respond if the version of ﬁrmware being

distributed has a larger version number than the code currently run-

ning. This selection only applies to ﬁrmware downloads.

n None of the Above: A password that must be entered by the operator

of the unit doing the distribution. The local unit will not respond to

any distributions that do not supply this password.

If the distribute is password protected, only those units that have the

same password conﬁgured in the control parameter will accept the dis-

tribution. The units can be protected from unwanted loads. The pass-

word may also be used to divide the units into code load groups such

that the loads to one group will not affect the other groups.

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