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
- Untitled

Upgrading system software
The upgrade procedure
E-10 Preliminary January 30, 1998 Pipeline User’s Guide
nvramclear
After executing this command, the Pipeline will be inaccessible while it
clears NVRAM and resets. Please wait for the unit to reset before attempting
to use it.
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Repeat the procedure, this time uploading the fat or extended load. Be sure
your system is backed up before you begin so you can revert to a saved
configuration, if necessary.
After a successful upgrade, one of the following messages appears.
• If the load is thin:
UART initialized
thin load: inflate
........................................................
...
starting system...
• If the load is fat:
UART initialized
fat load: inflate
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....
starting system...
• If the load is extended:
UART initialized
extended load: inflate
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....
starting system...
This completes the update load if you have no errors. If the upgrade is not
successful, refer to “Recovering from a failed upgrade” next.
Recovering from a failed upgrade
If a load has an “incompatible format” message, you must first download a thin
or extended-aware load that can understand the new format.
If a load has a CRC error, the following message appears: