User's Manual

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TB9400 Installation and Operation Manual Working with Base Stations from Your PC 61
© Tait Electronics Limited September 2011
4.4.9 Preparing to Download Firmware
New versions of base station firmware are remotely downloaded to base
stations from a package server. A package server is a basic web server
application. The product DVD provides the Mongoose web server.
Note You do not have to install Mongoose to make it work, because
mongoose-3.0.exe is a self-sufficient executable file.
You can set up a single PC to be the central package server for all the base
stations on the network using mongoose or any web server. You can also use
a laptop as a temporary package server.
To set up a PC as a package server, proceed as follows.
1. Insert the product DVD in the computer’s DVD drive.
2. If the DVD does not autorun, navigate to the DVD’s root folder and
double-click mongoose-3.0.exe. An “m” icon appears in the system
tray to indicate that the package server is running.
3. If the PC is to be the central package server, configure each base
station with the package server’s IP address and port.
a. Select Configure > Base Station > Miscellaneous.
b. Under Package server, enter the IP address of the package server.
4. If a laptop is to be a temporary package server, temporarily override
the package server IP address and port in each base station.
a. Select Tools > Tools > Firmware Download.
b. Under Package server, enter the IP address of the laptop.
You can now instruct a base station to list and download firmware from the
package server.