Raritan PX3TS, User Manual

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Chapter 3: Initial Installation and Configuration
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Use a USB flash drive:

Requirement: A FAT32- or supperfloppy-formatted USB flash drive
containing special configuration files is required.

Procedure: Plug this USB drive into the PX3TS. When a happy smiley
is shown on the front panel display, press and hold one of the control
buttons on the front panel until the display turns blank.
See Configuration or Firmware Upgrade with a USB Drive (on
page 666).
Cascading Multiple PX3TS Devices for Sharing Ethernet Connectivity
Important: To upgrade an existing USB-cascading chain from any
pre-3.3.10 firmware version to version 3.3.10 or later, follow the
Upgrade Sequence in an Existing Cascading Chain (on page 415).
You can have multiple PX3TS devices share one Ethernet connection by
cascading them via one of the interfaces below:

USB interface -- for cascading multiple PX3TS or multiple iX7
™
PDUs

Ethernet interface -- for cascading multiple iX7
™
PDUs
The first one in the cascading chain is the master device and all the other
are slave devices. Only the master device is physically connected to the
LAN -- wired or wireless.
Each device in the chain is accessible over the network, with the Bridging
or Port-Forwarding cascading mode activated on the master device. See
Setting the Cascading Mode
(on page 282).

Bridging: Each device in the cascading chain is accessed with a
different IP address.

Port Forwarding: Each device in the cascading chain is accessed
with the same IP address(es) but with a different port number
assigned.
Basic cascading restrictions:

All devices in the chain must run "compatible" firmware versions.

Firmware version 3.3.10 or later is NOT compatible with
pre-3.3.10 firmware versions in terms of the cascading feature
so all devices in the cascading chain must run version 3.3.10 or
later.