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Related Documentation
- ACX Series
- ACX Series Autoinstallation Overview
- Autoinstallation Configuration of ACX Series Universal Access Routers
- Verifying Autoinstallation on ACX Series Universal Access Routers
- USB Autoinstallation on ACX Series Routers
- ACX, EX, M, PTX, T Series
- autoinstallation
- ACX, EX, J Series
- show system autoinstallation status
Before You Begin Autoinstallation on an ACX Series Universal Access Router
To configure a router for autoinstallation, complete the following tasks:
- Make sure you have a DHCP server on your network to meet your network requirements.
- Create one of the following configuration files and store
it on an HTTP, FTP, or TFTP server in the network:
- A host-specific file with the name hostname.conf for each router undergoing autoinstallation. Replace hostname with the name of a router. The hostname.conf file typically contains all the configuration information necessary for the router with this hostname.
- A default configuration file named router.conf with the minimum configuration necessary to enable you to telnet into the new router for further configuration.
- Physically attach the router to the network using a Gigabit Ethernet interface.
- If you configure the DHCP server to provide only the HTTP, FTP, or TFTP server hostname, add an IP address-to-hostname mapping entry for the HTTP, FTP, or TFTP server to the DNS database file on the DNS server in the network.
- If the new router is not on the same network segment as the DHCP server (or other router providing IP address resolution), configure an existing router as an intermediate to receive HTTP, FTP, or TFTP and DNS requests and forward them to the HTTP, FTP, or TFTP and DNS servers. You must configure the LAN on the intermediate router with the IP addresses of the hosts providing HTTP, FTP, or TFTP and DNS service. Connect this interface to the new router.
- If you are using hostname.conf files for autoinstallation of host-specific configuration files,
you must also complete the following tasks:
- Configure the DHCP server to provide a hostname.conf filename to each new router. Each router uses its hostname.conf filename to request a configuration file from the TFTP server. Copy the necessary hostname.conf configuration files to the TFTP server.
- Create a default configuration
file named network.conf and copy it to the TFTP server. This
file contains IP address-to-hostname mapping entries. If the DHCP
server does not send a hostname.conf filename to a new router, the router uses network.conf to
resolve its hostname based on its IP address.
Alternatively, you can add the IP address-to-hostname mapping entry for the new router to a DNS database file.
The router uses the hostname to request a hostname.conf file from the server.
Related Documentation
- ACX Series
- ACX Series Autoinstallation Overview
- Autoinstallation Configuration of ACX Series Universal Access Routers
- Verifying Autoinstallation on ACX Series Universal Access Routers
- USB Autoinstallation on ACX Series Routers
- ACX, EX, M, PTX, T Series
- autoinstallation
- ACX, EX, J Series
- show system autoinstallation status
Published: 2013-01-11
Supported Platforms
Related Documentation
- ACX Series
- ACX Series Autoinstallation Overview
- Autoinstallation Configuration of ACX Series Universal Access Routers
- Verifying Autoinstallation on ACX Series Universal Access Routers
- USB Autoinstallation on ACX Series Routers
- ACX, EX, M, PTX, T Series
- autoinstallation
- ACX, EX, J Series
- show system autoinstallation status