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RE: (ASCEND) P75 upgrades
I believe the documentation says that the configuration is ALWAYS cleared
when loading software through a serial connection to the console port.
At 07:27 AM 5/15/98 -0400, Mitchell.Arnone@occ.treas.gov wrote:
>Actually, you may be onto something. I upgrade all my Pipeline 75s here
in the office before sending them to the field. When I later upgrade them
to a newer rev in the field (remotely using Telnet), I have had a 100%
success rate. However, when I upgrade them before sending them to the
field I occasionally lose the configuration after the upgrade. I have
assumed that I just made a simple mistake causing me to reload the
configuration or that terminal mode didn't work as well as telnet. In any
case I didn't think anything of it. I do agree that this problem may only
affect devices with the factory configuration (a device that has never been
upgraded) because I have never had this problem on a Pipeline 75 after its
first upgrade.
>
>Mitch
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joseph Bridgewater <Joseph@dontspamaustintx.net.bungi.com>
[mailto:Joseph@dontspamaustintx.net.bungi.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 10:42 AM
>To: <ascend-users@bungi.com>
>Subject: Re: (ASCEND) P75 upgrades
>
>I nearly always use a telnet session, but have seen the failure both ways.
>I've followed that exact procedure (tload -> fsave ->nvramclear ->doesn't
>restore fsaved config). Again; appears to only be devices never upgraded
>before.
>
>On those that have worked for you, have any/all of them never been upgraded
>before?
>
>
>At 09:46 PM 5/13/98 -0400, Mitchell.Arnone@occ.treas.gov wrote:
>>I have configured and deployed 20 Pipeline 75s. When upgrading my
>firmware to 6.0, I first do the tload then fsave then nvramclear. When I
>do this from a telnet session, it has worked without losing the original
>configuration 100% of the time. I did experience a failure one time but I
>was doing the upgrade from a terminal connection using hyperterminal. I
>don't know if it realy matters whether or not the connection to the
>pipeline is established via telnet or hyperterm but this has been my
>experience so far.
>>
>>Semper Fi, Mitch
>>---------- Original Text ----------
>>
>>From: Joseph Bridgewater <Joseph@dontspamaustintx.net.bungi.com>, on
>5/12/98 7:10 AM:
>>
>>I've done the fsave immediately after the tload and the P75 *still* don't
>>come back up without prodding via serial cable. Need to work with a client
>>to fix one this evening in fact (5.1A -> 5.1Ap9)
>>
>>I do think the instructions have been amended as such, but it doesn't do
>>any good.
>>
>>It seems (I think I read this here a couple month or so back) that if the
>>Pipeline hasn't been upgraded via tload before, it will not come back up.
>>Once it has, it will work as expected.
>>
>>At 03:08 PM 5/12/98 -0700, Kevin A. Smith wrote:
>>>At 04:51 PM 5/12/98 -0400, Charlie Taylor wrote:
>>>>I've been upgrading a number of Pipeline75 from various versions of
>>>>5.0 to 6.0.2 via tloadcode. The steps are
>>>>
>>>> 1. fsave
>>>> 2. tloadcode hostname filename
>>>
>>>2.a fsave
>>>
>>>> 3. nvramclear
>>>>
>>>>This seems to work about 50% of the time. The other 50%, when the
pipeline
>>>>reboots it comes up in the factory config. If I then put a serial
cable on
>>>>it, go do diags and type "nvramclear" again, it reboots and comes up with
>>>>its correct (saved) configuration.
>>>>
>>>>Am I doing something wrong? Is there some trick to getting this to work
>>>>reliably? Clearly, having to go out and stick a serial cable on these
>>>>units to upgrade them is time consuming and should be unnecessary.
>>>
>>>I thought the upgrade process had been modified to include the fsave
*after*
>>>the tload?
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