Windows Pc Requirements - Nortel RLC Installation And Administration Manual

June 2005

Windows PC requirements

To use Configuration Manager, the administration PC must:
be an IBM-compatible PC
use a Windows 95, 98, NT Workstation 4.0, Millennium Edition (ME),
2000 Professional, or XP (Professional and Home Edition) operating
system with the Microsoft TCP/IP networking component installed
be equipped with a CD-ROM drive
be equipped with a 10BaseT Ethernet interface card
have an available COM port if you wish to use the RS-232 serial port to
establish a direct serial connection
be equipped with a pointing device, such as a mouse
use Microsoft's IP stack
have 32 Mbytes of RAM for Windows 95, 98, and ME, or 64 Mbytes of
RAM for Windows NT Workstation 4.0, 2000 Professional, and XP
(Professional and Home Edition
have 48 Mbytes of available storage for Windows 95, 98 and ME, or 64
Mbytes of available storage for Windows NT Workstation 4.0, 2000
Professional, and XP (Professional and Home Edition)
Note: Configuration Manager does not support any of the Win32 Server
versions of Microsoft Windows.
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server
Firmware upgrades and configuration uploads require that the administration PC
have a TFTP server application installed. The administrator must know the TFTP
server's IP address in the network. In other words, the IP address of the
administration PC.
You can use any TFTP server application. These applications are available free
of charge on the Internet.
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