ZyXEL Communications prestige 314 plus User Manual

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Prestige 314 PLUS Broadband Sharing Gateway with 4-Port Switch 
Firmware and Configuration Maintenance 
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Step 5.  Use the TFTP client (see the example below) to transfer files between the Prestige and the 
computer. The file name for the firmware is “ras”. 
Note that the telnet connection must be active and the Prestige in CI mode before and during the TFTP 
transfer. For details on TFTP commands (see following example), please consult the documentation of your 
TFTP client program. For UNIX, use “get” to transfer from the Prestige to the computer, “put” the other way 
around, and “binary” to set binary transfer mode. 
TFTP Upload Command Example 
The following is an example tftp command: 
TFTP [-i] host put firmware.bin ras 
where “i” specifies binary image transfer mode (use this mode when transferring binary files), “host” is the 
Prestige’s IP address, “put” transfers the file source on the computer (firmware.bin – name of the firmware 
on the computer) to the file destination on the remote host (ras - name of the firmware on the Prestige). 
Commands that you may see in third party TFTP clients are listed earlier in this chapter. 
12.4.4 Uploading Via Console Port 
FTP or TFTP are the preferred methods for uploading firmware to your Prestige. However in the event of 
your network being down, uploading files is only possible with a direct connection to your Prestige via the 
console port. Uploading files via the console port under normal conditions is not recommended since FTP or 
TFTP is faster. Any serial communications program should work fine; however, you must use the Xmodem 
protocol to perform the download/upload. 
Uploading a Firmware File Via Console Port 
Step 1.  Select 1 from Menu 24.7 – System Maintenance – Upload Firmware to display Menu 24.7.1 - 
System Maintenance - Upload Router Firmware, and then follow the instructions as shown in 
the following screen.