Send Local Firmware - GE MDS ORBIT MCR Technical Manual

Send Local Firmware

Use the Send Local Firmware menu to send a firmware image to Orbit radios on the network. The
Remote Management Service must be enabled on each remote radio in order for them to receive the
request. Remote reprogramming can be used to push firmware from an access point to all remote radios at
once, while limiting the reprogramming operation's use of the channel to prevent interference with data
traffic. It is ideally suited for networks that operate on narrow channel sizes, such as Orbit NX915 and
LN.
The sending radio makes three attempts to send a firmware image through multicast. Firmware data is
sent as a series of blocks. Only blocks that were not received by a remote in the previous cycle are resent.
To prevent flooding the network with reprogramming traffic, the firmware push is automatically
constrained as a best-effort service, and TX Rate and Block Size parameters are set to their most
conservative values.
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Interface – The network interface on which to transmit the reboot request. If a desired
network interface is present in a bridge, you must enter the bridge's name in this field.
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Image Version – Select either onboard firmware image.
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TX Rate – Desired firmware transfer rate, in kbps. You may also enter -1 to transfer data as
fast as the network will allow, or -2 to transfer data as fast as may be sustained by the slowest
peer. -2 to 1000000, DEFAULT 1.
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Block Size – Number of bytes per data block. 512 to 1300, DEFAULT 512.
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Reboot Remotes on Completion – Disabled by DEFAULT. If this option is selected, remote
units will automatically reboot to the new firmware once they have successfully received and
verified the firmware image.
Detailed statistics are currently unavailable for remote reprogramming, but you may view a remote unit's
event log to determine that it has opened a remote reprogramming session, completed successfully, or
finished unsuccessfully. You can also monitor the transfer status by viewing the AP's event log to see
that it has begun or finished a remote transfer session.
MDS 05-6632A01, Rev. F
Figure 3-203 Send Local Firmware menu
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