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Installing and Operating Passport ARN Routers
When you start the ARN for the first time, it completes an initial startup procedure
to boot and connect to the network using either a default configuration file or one
already customized and available on the network.
You use one of four boot options to complete the initial software startup.
summarizes the four options; the sections that follow provide steps for completing
each option.
Table 2-1.
Summary of Initial Startup Options
Boot
Source for
Option
Image file
EZ-Install
Local
Netboot*
Local
or
Network
Directed
Local
Netboot†
or
Network
Local Boot Local
* The ARN supports netboot over serial, Ethernet, token ring, and 56/64K DSU/CSU interfaces only.
† The ARN supports directed netboot over serial, Ethernet, token ring, and 56/64K DSU/CSU interfaces only.
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Source for
Configuration
File
Description and Requirements
Network
The default option. The ARN boots from local flash
(serial interface
memory, then obtains its configuration file from a remote
only)
workstation that is configured as a Bootstrap Protocol
(BootP) server. The ARN saves the configuration to the
flash memory
This option requires a High-Level Data Link Control
(HDLC) or frame relay serial connection.
Local
The ARN locates and obtains at least one startup file from
or
a remote workstation that is configured as a BootP server.
Network
This option requires a communications connection over
an HDLC, frame relay, Ethernet, token ring, or DSU/CSU
interface, and a local console connection.
Local
The ARN obtains at least one startup file from a remote
or
workstation that is configured as a Trivial File Transfer
Network
Protocol (TFTP) server. You must specify the IP address
of the TFTP server and the complete path to the startup
files before booting.
This option requires a communications connection over
an HDLC, frame relay, Ethernet, token ring, or DSU/CSU
interface, and a local console connection.
Local
The ARN boots from a local software image and generic
startup configuration file. You create a customized
configuration file by running the Quick-Start script.
This option requires a local console connection and an
installed BayRS flash memory card. If you attempt to local
boot the ARN/DC without the flash memory card inserted,
the router does not operate.
.
Table 2-1
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