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Chapter 6
Customizing Router Software Images
You can customize the router’s software image using a Site Manager tool called
the Image Builder. In most cases, you use the Image Builder when you are
upgrading the router with new software; however, you can use it to change the
software image currently operating on a router.
The Image Builder lets you customize a software image in the following ways:
• Remove a protocol that you do not use.
You might want to remove protocols to make more space available on the
media that contains the router software image.
• Add a protocol that you removed inadvertently.
• Upgrade your router by replacing an existing image with a new one.
• Consolidate the software image.
Sometimes Bay Networks supplies the software image on two diskettes. You
might want to consolidate the two parts into one image.
• View information about the image components.
The Image Builder displays a router software image as a list of individual
components.
• Convert an image you created to an equivalent image for a different type of
router.
• Create an entirely new software image.
You can make an entirely new image from several custom images.