Lantronix
ION x6010 User Guide
33493 Rev. F
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New Chassis-to-Chassis Operation
Managed Chassis (MC) to Un-managed Chassis (UC) is now supported with a firmware upgrade to the
slide-in-cards. No firmware upgrade to IONMM is required.
1.
When a chassis is first powered up, the IONMM boots and sends LLDP discovery packets out to the
chassis backplane to let the cards know that this is a managed chassis
a)
If IONMM exists:
cards enter normal local management mode
b)
If no IONMM exists: cards enter remote management mode
2.
When a managed chassis (MC) is first powered up:
a)
In approximately 40 seconds, the IONMM boots and the x6110 / x6120 / C4120 cards display in
the Management interface.
b)
In 50 seconds to 1:25 minutes, the IONMM boots and the OAM Ethernet cards display in the
Management interface.
3.
During power up of an Un-managed Chassis (UC), the discovery (or non-discovery) of a Management
Module takes time:
a)
Time for the TDM cards in the UC to be displayed in the MC: 1:05 minutes.
b)
Time for the remote cards in the UC to show up in the management interface of the MC: 3:40
minutes.
Remote Firmware Upgrade
Remote firmware upgrade of cards in an UC is also supported.
Note
that:
•
OAM Ethernet cards are easily upgraded in the field.
•
TDM cards and x602x require a boot loader upgrade first:
o
Can only be done in the factory
o
Only needs to be done once, but is required to support future firmware upgrades in the
field:
-
C6010:
Bootloader 0.1.2
-
C6110/C6120: Bootloader 0.1.3
-
C6210:
Bootloader 0.1.2
-
C4120:
Bootloader 0.1.3
o
Field firmware upgrades can be done in a MC, and then the cards can be moved to the
UC.
o
Field firmware upgrades in the UC cannot be done until the boot loader is upgraded at
the factory.
