RE: BCS Nortel switch firmware upgrade

Steve,

We had a Nortel Layer 2/3 switch, and we just opened a browser up to
the address of the switch, brought up a nice browser based GUI (needed JAVA
on the PC), and upgraded the firmware on the switch with a simple download
that we brought down from the Nortel website to the PC, and then from the
browser pointed to the file on the PC and it uploaded the driver.

Pete

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:08 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: BCS Nortel switch firmware upgrade

as part of the seemingly never ending process of getting my BCS JS12
working ( VIOS has gone casters up on me twice now after i5/OS is
loaded ), I am working on loading the lastest firmware and VIOS
upgrades on the BCS.

For the Nortel switch firmware update I have to establish an SFTP
server on my Windows PC. IBM support says I need the SFTP server, but
IBM does not supply one.

Could I FTP the firmware files to VIOS on the JS12 blade and the run
AIX commands to update the Ethernet/Nortel module firmware from there?
Does AIX include an SFTP server?

( IBM could make the entire firmware and VIOS update process a lot
easier if there was AIX/VIOS code you could run that would get the
needed files from the web, then update the firmware )

Any recommendations of an SFTP server for Windows?

thanks,