User's Manual

ARCXTEND USER MANUAL – R1.4, ISSUE 4

The Cable Status page is the default web page and contains information on the status of the ECM.

Figure 5-2 shows the results for a normal ECM connection to the cable network. If the ECM has

failed to connect properly to the cable network, fewer of the tasks will be registered as Success.

The first one not showing as Success will be the task that is failing.

Initialize Hardware The embedded modem check its hardware

Find Downstream The embedded modem find the available downstream

frequency

Ranging After the embedded modem locks onto the available

downstream. It will get the upstream information from CMTS

and try to find the available upstream channel. And it will try

the tuning the upstream power to make it has equivalent

power that CMTS requests to be.

DHCP Bound The embedded modem is getting IP address from DHCP

server

Set Time-of-Day The embedded modem is trying to synchronize the device

time with TOD (time of day) server. The modem still can get

registered even it fails in getting TOD response.

Download CM Config file The embedded modem is getting configuration file from TFTP

server. And the IP address of TFTP server should be

specified in DHCP options

Registration The embedded modem use the configuration parameters

inside Cable Modem config file and request service from

CMTS

Pause Searching Downstream Stop all the tasks from downstream searching. Thus the

embedded modem will not try to register with CMTS