Create a Configuration File

All DOCSIS modems support basic IP bridging. A modem may support additional features depending on the modem model and the software image it uses. See the modem manufacturer's documentation for a list of all the software features that the modem supports and the software revisions required for those features.

Using your inputs, you can create a configuration file to apply to your modem.

Timesaver: The navigation toolbar (on the left side of the browser screen) shows:

Empty check boxes next to configuration screens that have not yet been used

Green check marks next to screens that have been validated and accepted as part of the configuration

Red check marks for screens that have been submitted but found to have missing or unusable information

Procedure

To create a configuration file, follow this procedure.

Field

Description

Usage Notes

Step 1

Connect your web browser to:

http://www.cisco.com/support/toolkit/Cable Modem/

Step 2

Enter the site information.

Step 3

Enter the radio frequency (RF) information.

Step 4

Enter the class of service (CoS) information.

Step 5

Enter the vendor information. For a cable modem, see Vendor Information (Cable).

Step 6

Enter the SNMP information.

Step 7

Enter the Baseline Privacy (BPI) information.

Step 8

Enter the customer premises equipment (CPE) information.

Step 9

Enter the software upgrade information.

Step 10

Enter the telephone return information.

Step 11

Enter the miscellaneous (concatenation, RFC 2104, HMAC-MD5) information.

Step 12

Click Submit to update the configuration file.

After the information has been submitted and verified, the Cisco DOCSIS CPE Configurator generates a configuration file in binary format for the modem, and a link to Cisco Connection Online (CCO) that contains the downloadable configuration file. The Cisco DOCSIS CPE Configurator also generates an ASCII file containing the parameters you entered. Upload Configuration uses this file to upload the configuration parameters to the Cisco DOCSIS CPE Configurator for editing.

Get the configuration file from CCO

The Cisco DOCSIS CPE Configurator provides two methods to get the downloadable configuration file:

Download the tar file using the provided link---Compressed file containing both the binary configuration file (with the .bin file extension) and the ASCII file containing the parameters you entered. Cisco recommends this method.
Download the binary configuration file using the provided link---Compressed file containing only the binary configuration file (with the .bin file extension).

Tips

Both download methods allow you to save the configuration file on your local disk storage. Cisco recommends this because CCO does not allow you (at a later time) to retrieve the configuration file that you created.

Field	Description	Usage Notes
Step 1	Connect your web browser to: http://www.cisco.com/support/toolkit/Cable Modem/
Step 2	Enter the site information.
Step 3	Enter the radio frequency (RF) information.
Step 4	Enter the class of service (CoS) information.
Step 5	Enter the vendor information. For a cable modem, see Vendor Information (Cable).
Step 6	Enter the SNMP information.
Step 7	Enter the Baseline Privacy (BPI) information.
Step 8	Enter the customer premises equipment (CPE) information.
Step 9	Enter the software upgrade information.
Step 10	Enter the telephone return information.
Step 11	Enter the miscellaneous (concatenation, RFC 2104, HMAC-MD5) information.
Step 12	Click Submit to update the configuration file.