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Chapter 4
Administration and
Management
This chapter contains information about SNMP management, out-of-band
management using SLIP, error and fault processing, Flash updates, and other
information related to the firmware for the Netelligent 2008 and
2016 repeaters.
Boot and Runtime Overview
The Netelligent 2008/2016 repeater firmware is divided into two distinct
firmware blocks:
Boot
Runtime
Boot
Boot provides these basic features:
POST (Power On Self Test)
BOOTP/TFTP
Verification of valid Runtime
Autopolarity Reversal for UTP ports
XMODEM (Configuration File and Runtime upgrades)
NOTE: Boot cannot be upgraded via TFTP or XMODEM.
Runtime
Runtime is field upgradable via a firmware download using XMODEM or
TFTP. Runtime provides these basic features:
VT100 (Telnet and SLIP)
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