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Conference irocz::common_brouters

Title:Digital Brouters Conference
Notice:New common-code brouter family: RouteAbout, DECswitch 900
Moderator:MARVIN::HARTLL
Created:Mon Jul 17 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:929
Total number of notes:3736

510.0. "HARDRESET; watchdog timer expired ?" by BARNA::DSMAIL () Tue Aug 20 1996 04:51

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510.1EDWIN::TACTue Aug 20 1996 12:3911
510.2working.History...BARNA::DSMAILThu Aug 22 1996 04:4214
510.4V1.0 upgrade issue ?BSS::RIGGENJTue Apr 22 1997 15:299
    attempting to upgrade a Routeabout 90EW from V1.0.0 to V2.01 and I'm
    getting error BUGHLT +7 Watchdog timer expired ?
    
    I am using the Netrider loader and don't have the option of a Digital
    Unix tftp in my garage. YET ! 
    
    I will attempt a incremental upgrade tonight.
    
    Jeff 
510.5mgb.rkg.dec.com::GILLOTTMark Gillott, 831-3172 (rkg)Wed Apr 23 1997 05:176
Ok so  when  does the box report the BUGHLT?.  Is it the same as reported in
.0?.   That  problem  was  caused  by  a  known  bug  in  OVMS UCX TFTP (see
alesewhere  in here).  Any chance the same bug exists in Netrider?.  What is
"the Netrider loader"?.

Mark
510.6net rider loaderNETCAD::BARENYSJohn BarenysWed Apr 23 1997 14:0113
mark,
	The Netrider loader is a program that the
NetRider folks wrote in LKG (I think)... it is a TFTP/BOOTp
host that runs under Win3.1/95/NT and uses the TCPIP stack
that you have on the machine.

It is not a VMS based application so I am not sure if
it would suffer from the same problems as the OVMS loaders.

If you like a copy of the loader software it is available on 
a server in LKG and I can get you a pointer.

-John
510.7mgb.rkg.dec.com::GILLOTTMark Gillott, 831-3172 (rkg)Thu Apr 24 1997 05:056
Thanks for  the  update.   I'm  not  that  intersted in Netrider, I was just
wondering  if  it  suffered  from the same problem as VMS - sounds unlikely.
Presumably  people  have  used Netrider to upgrade RouteAbout's and have not
seen any problems?.

Mark
510.8MARVIN::CLEVELANDThu Apr 24 1997 07:5410
    Are you sure it was V1.0.0?  That was not (supposed) to be a released
    version.  The actual SSB release was V1.0.2
    
    I just tested an EW, upgrading from V1.0.2 to V2.0.1, with no problems. 
    It may indeed be a problem caused by the netrider loader, or something
    else external.  You might try upgrading from the BOOT PROM, that might
    get you going, at least.  From the ">" prompt after powerup, use the BM
    command to do a manual TFTP upgrade.
    
    Tim
510.9net rider boot/p loaderNETCAD::BARENYSJohn BarenysThu Apr 24 1997 10:5519
I have used the netrider Loader many times in my
office w/ no problems doing and upgrade (and in
some cases downgrades).... one thing that I have noticed
is that in some locations where I have tried to use
the Loader it did not function well because of ill
behaved bootp servers on the LAN... both of the 
servers answer the requests.

In some cases the RouteAbout will begin to load
code and then it seems to stall.  In the end the 
upgraded fails because the transfer never completes.

I have noted this in some offices in LKG... the solution 
was to put the host PC on a private LAN with the RouteAbout.
Not exactly the most convenient way of doing it, but one
that seemed to work.

-John