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USER’S MANUAL

Section 13: Deep Tech Information and Troubleshooting 267

3. Asuccessfuldownloadwillbeindicatedbythenewversionbeingdisplayedinthe

Bank1field.IfthedownloadisunsuccessfulthefieldforBank1wouldbeblank.

4. ClickontheBank1radiobuttonandthenApplytorebootandrunthenewsoftware

version.

IMPORTANT!Thenodewillrebootafteryoucl

ickApplywhenchangingbetweensoftware

versions.Thiswillresultinlossofaudiolocally,andatanyunitusingthelocalsources.In

additionyouwillresetyourbrowserconnectionandwillneedtoreconnect.

13.4 Updating the original (10 Base-T) Xstream

ZephyrXstream’ssoftwareisstoredonare‐programmablemodule.TheXstreamcanuseFTP

(FileTransferProtocol)overanyIPnetworktodownloadnewfirmwarefromanFTPserverinto

thememorymodule.WeadviseyoutocontactTelosCustomerSupport(haveyourcurrent

softwareversionandSerialnumberwh

enyoucall)todiscusswhetherthelatestversionwould

bettermeetyourneeds.TheTeloswebsitewww.zephyr.comincludesinformationonupdating

yourXstream.Thisinformationincludesversionnotesdescribingthechangesbetweenthe

softwareversion.

Therearetwobasicscenario’s.IfyourfirewallallowsFTPthrough,thentheXs

treamcan

downloadthenewsoftwaredirectlyfromtheTelosFTPsite(ftp.telos‐systems.com)

.

IfyourfirewalldoesnotallowdirectFTPdownload,youwillneedtodownloadourfreetlsFTP

serversoftwareandtheXstreamsoftwarefiles.ThisdownloadcanbeinitiatedattheTelosweb

site.YouwillneedtodownloadthisfilearchivetoanIBMPCcompatiblemachineonthelocal

network.Thereadmefileincl

udedinthearchivehasdetailedinstructionsonsettingupthe

TelosFTPserver.

YouwillthenusetheIPaddressofyourlocalFTPmachineastheFTPsiteintheZephyr

Xstream’ssystemmenuandtheninitiatetheupdateprocess.IfyouareunsureoftheIPaddr

ess

forthecomputeryouareusingfortheupdate,gotoaDOSwindowandtype"ipconfig<enter>".

TogettoaDOSwindowgototherunwindowprogramsandtype"command<enter>"(Win3.1,

95,&98)or"Cmd<enter>"(WinNT,2000).

Detailedupd

ateproceduresfollow.

Updating 10 Base-T Xstreams from a local ftp updater.

FirstdownloadtheTelosftpupdater.ThissoftwarewillberunonalocalWindows™machine.

Software update step-by-step (Local Server)

1. YouwillneedtoknowtheIPaddressofthemachinethatwillberunningtheftp

updater.YoucanfindoutyourIPaddressbygoingtotheMS‐DOSwindowand

typing:IPCon

fig<enter>.Theinformationaboutthismachine'snetwork

configurationwillbedisplayed.

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