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Warning:
If you press and hold the RELOAD button for more than 15 seconds
immediately after the MB8000 is power on or reset, the MB8000 will enter into
Force Reload Procedure. The software in the MB8000 will be erased. You will
have to download software into MB8000 to make it work again.
5.4 Forced Reload Procedure
Use this procedure to force the MB8000 back to default network configuration values and
download new MB8000 software. This procedure may be required when the current
MB8000 software is missing, corrupted or needs to be upgraded.
In the Force Reload status of MB8000, MB8000 will only do the auto negotiation for the
duplex mode in the beginning of the Force Reload process. After that, MB8000 will work in
10M fully duplex mode and refuse other duplex mode.
Download procedure
1. Prepare you TFTP server. TFTP server is a computer with TFTP server software
running. TFTP server can be freely downloaded from www.solarwinds.net . You
can also search other TFTP servers from the Internet if you like.
2. To download the MB8000 Software, you will need an Ethernet connection to the
computer on which the TFTP server resides. This can be any computer on the
LAN, or connected to the MB8000’s “LAN” port with a “crossover” Ethernet cable.
3. After force reload, MB8000's IP will be set to 10.0.0.1 by default, and MB8000 will
login the TFTP server with IP address “10.0.0.2” to download software named
“filename” by default. So please change the IP address of TFTP server to
10.0.0.2, and change the MB8000 software name to FILENAME, put it in the
directory of TFTP server root.
4. After finishing this preparation, power up the MB8000.
5. Press the RESET button.
6. Press and hold the RELOAD button for about 15 seconds immediately after you