Chapter 7 Configuration And Firmware File Maintenance; Filename Conventions Overview - ZyXEL Communications Prestige 645M-A1 User Manual

Prestige 645M-A1 ADSL Bridge
Chapter 7
Configuration and Firmware File
Maintenance
This chapter tells you how to backup and restore your configuration file as well as upload new
firmware and configuration files.
7.1

Filename Conventions Overview

The configuration file (often called the romfile or rom-0) contains the factory default settings in the menus
such as password, TCP/IP Setup, etc. It arrives from ZyXEL with a rom filename extension. Once you have
customized the Prestige's settings, they can be saved back to your computer under a filename of your
choosing.
ZyNOS (ZyXEL Network Operating System sometimes referred to as the "ras" file) is the system firmware
and has a "bin" filename extension. With many ftp and tftp clients, the filenames are similar to those seen
next.
ftp> put firmware.bin ras
This is a sample ftp session showing the transfer of the computer file " firmware.bin" to the Prestige.
ftp> get rom-0 config.cfg
This is a sample ftp session saving the current configuration to the computer file config.cfg.
If your [t]ftp client does not allow you to have a destination filename different than the source, you will
need to rename them as the Prestige only recognizes "rom-0" and "ras". Be sure you keep unaltered copies
of both files for later use.
The following table is a summary. Please note that the internal filename refers to the filename on the
Prestige and the external filename refers to the filename not on the Prestige, that is, on your computer, local
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