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You use this page to distribute the firmware to other Cisco Aironet devices. The device sends the firmware to all the access points or bridges on your network that

• are running firmware that supports version 10.00 or newer.
• can detect the IP multicast query issued by the distributing device (network devices such as routers can block multicast messages).
• have their web servers enabled for external browsing (see the Web Server Setup).
• have the same HTTP port setting as the distributing access point (the HTTP port setting is on the Web Server Setup page)
• have a Default Gateway setting other than the default setting, which is 255.255.255.255 (the Default Gateway setting is on the Express Setup and Routing Setup pages)
• if they have User Manager enabled, contain in their User Lists a user with the same user name, password, and capabilities as the user performing the distribution (the person logged in on the distributing device).

Settings

Current User

This is the user (probably you) who has logged in to distribute the firmware. If User Manager is enabled on the device of your network, the User Lists in those devices must contain a user with the same user name, password, and capabilities as the user performing the distribution (the person logged in on the distributing device).

Distribute All Firmware

To distribute all three firmware components at once, verify that yes is selected and that a check appears in the check box for each firmware component. This is the default setup for the Distribute Firmware page.

To distribute the firmware components individually, select no and click the check boxes for the components you want to distribute.

Current Version of System Firmware

This is the version of system firmware on the distributing device. Click the check box to mark this version for distribution. (The check box is already selected if you select Yes under Distribute All Firmware.)

Current Version of Web Pages

This is the version of the management system web pages on the distributing device. Click the check box to mark this version for distribution. (The check box is already selected if you select Yes under Distribute All Firmware.)

Current Version of Radio Firmware

This is the version of the radio firmware on the distributing device. Click the check box to mark this version for distribution. (The check box is already selected if you select Yes under Distribute All Firmware.)

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