Installation guide

42 Release Notes for Catalyst 6000 Family Software Release 5.x

Documentation Updates for Software Release 5.1

Note If you are transferring from a local computer, you may need to conﬁgure the

terminal emulation program to ignore RTS/DTR signals.

Step 3 To upload from a remote computer:

(a) Connect a modem to the console port and to the telephone network.

(b) The modem and console port must communicate at the same speed, which can be

from 1200 to 38400 bps, depending on the speed supported by your modem. Use

the confreg ROM monitor command to conﬁgure the console port transmission

speed.

conﬁgure it for the same speed as the supervisor engine.

(d) Dial the number of the supervisor engine modem from the remote computer.

Step 4 Enter the xmodem command at the ROM monitor prompt in the terminal emulation

window:

rommon > xmodem -s 38400 -c

Step 5 Start an Xmodem or Ymodem send operation with the computer’s terminal emulation

software. The computer uploads the system image to the supervisor engine. See your

terminal emulation software application manual for instructions on how to execute a

Xmodem or Ymodem ﬁle transfer.

Step 6 After the new image is completely uploaded, the ROM monitor boots it.

Note Uploading an image through the console port does not create an image ﬁle on any

of the Flash devices. The uploaded image resides only in memory. The image in memory

cannot be saved as a ﬁle.

Step 7 After the upload, the console port returns to the default baud rate: 9600. If the upload took

place at other than 9600 baud, the remote computer's baud rate must be changed back to

9600 baud.

Note Establish network connectivity to the switch to copy an image ﬁle from a TFTP server to one

of the ﬂash devices.

Documentation Updates for Software Release 5.1

This section describes caveats for the Catalyst 6000 family software release 5.1 documentation.

These changes will be included in the next update to the documentation.

• The Catalyst 6000 and 6500 Series Software Conﬁguration Guide, Software Release 5.1,

page 4-4. Incorrectly includes a description of how to conﬁgure the priority level of each port on

Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet modules using the set port level command. This

feature has not been implemented on Catalyst 6000 family switches and the set port level

command is not supported.