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Release Notes for Cisco IOS Release 11.2(10)P Software Feature Packs—Cisco AS5200 Access Servers

Release Notes for Cisco IOS Release 11.2(10)P Software Feature Packs—Cisco AS5200 Access Servers

January 26, 1998

These release notes discuss the Cisco IOS Release 11.2(10)P feature packs for Cisco AS5200 access servers. These are the product numbers for the supported feature packs:

• CD52-C-11.2= (Cisco AS5200 IP Feature Pack)
  
  
• CD52-CP-11.2= (Cisco AS5200 IP Plus Feature Pack)
  
  
• CD52-B-11.2= (Cisco AS5200 Desktop Feature Pack)
  
  
• CD52-BP-11.2= (Cisco AS5200 Desktop Plus Feature Pack)
  
  
• CD52-A-11.2= (Cisco AS5200 Enterprise Feature Pack)
  
  
• CD52-AP-11.2= (Cisco AS5200 Enterprise Plus Feature Pack)
  
  

These release notes contain the following sections:

• What is a Feature Pack?
  
  
• Cisco Feature Pack Description
  
  
• Modem Firmware
  
  
• Installation Tips
  
  
• Cisco IOS Release 11.2 Feature Sets
  
  
• Installing the Software Image Using a TFTP or RCP Application
  
  
• Related Documentation
  
  
• Cisco Connection Online
  
  

What is a Feature Pack?

The heart of a Cisco IOS software feature pack is a CD-ROM that contains a software image and Router Software Loader (RSL), a Windows 95 application that loads the image onto the access server/router. Each Cisco IOS Release 11.2 feature pack CD contains one feature set. For users without Windows 95, images can also be loaded with a Trivial File Transfer Protocol server application, as explained in these release notes.

Each Cisco IOS Release 11.2 software feature pack box contains the following:

• CD-ROM with the following software:
  
  
  • Feature set software image that includes bundled modem firmware
    
    
  • RSL program (Windows 95 application)
    
    
  • TFTP server application (Windows 95 application)
    
    
• Instruction booklet for using RSL
  
  
• Release notes (this document), which include instructions for using a TFTP server application on a system not running Windows 95
  
  
• Software license—for using Cisco software in object code form on a single access server or router
  
  
• Cisco Documentation CD-ROM, which contains all Cisco IOS software documentation
  
  

Cisco Feature Pack Description

This section describes the Cisco feature packs, listing the software feature sets comprising each feature pack. You can use this information to identify your feature pack set in conjunction with the corresponding information provided in Table 3 in the section "Cisco IOS Release 11.2 Feature Sets". Table 3 identifies which features are supported for a feature set on a specific platform.

Software Feature Packs

This section includes two tables: Table 1, describes each feature pack image, including a brief description of each feature set, the UNIX and DOS filenames of the images, and the memory required to run each feature set on the Cisco AS5200 access server. Table 2 lists the memory delivered by default and the memory upgrades available.

You can use Table 1 to identify the memory required for your configuration based on the image you run. You can then check this against Table 2 to determine how much memory is available on the access server as the factory default and the upgrades that you can obtain to satisfy your requirements.

Table 2 lists factory default memory and the upgrade options that are available.

Modem Firmware

Cisco IOS software controls the version of modem firmware used by modems on the 56K 12-port modules. You can accept this firmware version or you can download another version. Unless you are familiar with Cisco AS5200 modem firmware, we recommend that you accept the default and not attempt to download another version.

Because you have the option of overriding the firmware version selected by Cisco IOS software, the following information provides some factors to consider before you manually download firmware:

• One modem firmware version is always bundled with the Cisco IOS image, and other firmware versions can exist in the access server's boot Flash memory. This feature pack contains Cisco IOS Release 11.2(10)P, which is bundled with Microcom firmware version 3.1.30.
  
  
• Firmware versions 3.2.10 and later are available on CCO. If you own a SMARTnet contract, you can download firmware from CCO and obtain the benefit of new features. For example, firmware version 3.2.10 contains support for V.FC, FAX, Lucent K56flex, and Point of Sale (PoS). Before downloading new firmware, be sure to read the firmware release notes for a list of new features and outstanding bugs.
  
  
• For complete information about firmware download, refer to "Installing 56K 12-Port Modules in Cisco AS5200 Universal Access Servers," which is available at http://www.cisco.com. The section "Decisions about Downloading 56K Modem Code" contains background information, and the section "Downloading Modem Code for Releases Requiring a Single File" contains download procedures for Cisco IOS Release 11.2(10)P.
  
  

Installation Tips

This section describes several solutions to problems you might encounter when using RSL. These solutions are additions to the RSL online help.

Recovering from a Connection Error

This installation tip provides a possible recovery solution in the event that you are unable to connect to your access server or router. You can skip this section unless you are experiencing a connection error.

In some cases, you might receive the following error message while connecting to the target access server:

"Failed to configure the router to enable the Cisco IOS software image and configuration 
file upload and download operations. You may want to check the router to make sure that 
the selected interface exists."
 

If you encounter this message, try increasing the Short Timeout value, which is set to 25 seconds, in the Options dialog box, especially if one of the following situations applies:

• You are connecting to an access server that has a large configuration file.
  
  
• You are connecting to a Cisco AS5200 access server. A Cisco AS5200 requires up to 45 seconds to write a configuration to nonvolatile random-access memory (NVRAM), due to the amount of interfaces that must be checked during this process. Increase the Short Timeout value to 60 seconds.
  
  

Restoring the Startup Configuration

In some cases, RSL is unable to restore the startup configuration. If this happens, take the following steps:

Step 2   Restart RSL and connect using the Preconfigured router option.

Step 3   When asked if you want to overwrite the existing startup configuration file, choose NO.

Step 4   When asked if you want to continue, choose YES.

Step 5   When connected, select Download Router Configuration in the Router Software Loader dialog box.

Step 6   Select the appropriate file, and click Copy configuration to the router's nonvolatile memory.

The access server should now contain the startup configuration it had before the initial RSL connection. You can now exit RSL.

Helpful Hints

The following information about RSL operations can help you with the installation process:

• If you have added any static entries to the PC's Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) table, one of them might be deleted by RSL. This entry will need to be manually reentered into the PC's ARP table.
  
  
• If the access server's running configuration at connection time is not the same as the access server's startup configuration, the exact configuration will not be restored. Any changes that you have made since the last time a copy running-config startup-config or write memory command was entered will be lost.
  
  
• RSL will restore the access server's running configuration, but some configuration commands will not be restored. However, the startup configuration will be correct. You can restore the exact running configuration by rebooting the access server. Commands not restored to the running configuration include the following interface configuration commands: no shutdown, no ringspeed, and media-type aui.
  
  

Cisco IOS Release 11.2 Feature Sets

Table 3 shows specific features supported in Cisco IOS Release 11.2 for Cisco AS5200 access servers. The table uses these conventions to identify features:

• Yes: the feature is offered in the feature set
  
  
• - : the feature is not offered in the feature set
  
  
• Plus: the feature is offered only in the Plus feature set
  
  

Installing the Software Image Using a TFTP or RCP Application

The Router Software Loader application contained on the feature pack CD-ROM is designed to work with a PC running Microsoft Windows 95. The booklet included with the CD-ROM explains how to perform this simple and recommended install process. However, an alternative is available using a TFTP or RCP server application to install router software.

For information about how to use TFTP or RCP, see the following location:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/relnote/fprn/loadswfp.htm.

Related Documentation

For a list of documentation related to the Cisco AS5200, refer to the Release Notes for the Cisco AS5200 and AS5100 for Cisco IOS Release 11.2.

Release notes and other Cisco documentation are on the Documentation CD-ROM that is included with your feature pack, and at Cisco Connection Online (CCO) on the World Wide Web.

On the Documentation CD-ROM, the path for Cisco IOS documentation is as follows:

On CCO, http://www.cisco.com/, the path is as follows:

Online documentation for Release 11.2 includes:

• Release Notes
  
  
• Feture Guides, including new features for Cisco IOS Release 11.2(10)P
  
  
• Configuration Guides and Command References
  
  
• Command Summary
  
  
• System Error Messages
  
  
• MIB User Quick Reference
  
  
• Debug Command Reference
  
  
• Caveats
  
  

The Cisco IOS software documentation for Cisco IOS Release 11.2 is divided into eight modules. There are also supporting documents. Each documentation module consists of two books: a configuration guide and a corresponding command reference. The Cisco IOS documentation set consists of the following books and chapter topics:

Cisco Connection Online

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Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, CCO provides a wealth of standard and value-added services to Cisco's customers and business partners. CCO services include product information, product documentation, software updates, release notes, technical tips, the Bug Navigator, configuration notes, brochures, descriptions of service offerings, and download access to public and authorized files.

CCO serves a wide variety of users through two interfaces that are updated and enhanced simultaneously: a character-based version and a multimedia version that resides on the World Wide Web (WWW). The character-based CCO supports Zmodem, Kermit, Xmodem, FTP, and Internet e-mail, and it is excellent for quick access to information over lower bandwidths. The WWW version of CCO provides richly formatted documents with photographs, figures, graphics, and video, as well as hyperlinks to related information.

You can access CCO in the following ways:

• WWW:  http://www.cisco.com
  
• WWW:  http://www-europe.cisco.com
  
• WWW:  http://www-china.cisco.com
  
• Telnet:  cco.cisco.com
  
  
• Modem:  From North America, 408 526-8070; from Europe, 33 1 64 46 40 82. Use the following terminal settings: VT100 emulation; databits: 8; parity: none; stop bits: 1; and connection rates up to 28.8 kbps.
  
  

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