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Figure 8-1 – Cabletron Systems 6500 User Manual

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SmartSwitch 6500 User Guide 8-3

Upgrades and Firmware

Upgrading and Changing Firmware

Figure 8-1 Memory locations affected by the boot load commands

scsm

Switch to the redundant CSM:

Tells the SmartSwitch 6500 to transfer CSM
mastership to the slave CSM.

none

swms

Switches CPU mastership to other
TSM/CPU:

Changes the slave TSM/CPU to the master.

none

Table 8-1

Boot load commands (Continued)

Command

Action

Parameters

initial boot routines

boot image 0

boot image 1

MAC addresses

POST diagnostics

SmartSwitch 6500 switch
operating firmware

Secondary flash RAM

boot PROM

Image is downloaded into boot PROM by

df

b

Cleared by

clfs

chpi

sets which is the default boot image

POST is downloaded into
flash RAM by

df

p

ponf

turns POST on and off.

Switch firmware is downloaded
to flash RAM by

df

s

go

runs switch firmware in

DRAM

configuration storage

Primary flash RAM