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Posted by acewarlock on July 30, 2007, 9:42 am
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> > > On Jul 26, 7:28 pm, r...@phonebusiness.com.au wrote:
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> > > > Hi guys,
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> > > > Does anyone know what ports you need to allow through in order to
> > > > upload patches to a Nortel BCM 3.7 system?
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> > > > I have a system (BCM400 v3.7) that I can access remotely (firewall is
> > > > open for ports 443, 135, and 54050-54100). However, I can't upload any
> > > > patches to it. I suspect this is because the "BCM Update Wizard" is
> > > > using a TCP/IP port that is still blocked by their firewall.
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> > > > Any ideas?
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> > > > Raja Ewart
> > > > Future Master of All Things Currently Difficult
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> > > It likely uses ftp to transfer files to the BCM. I would try to do
> > > the patch from a macine at the same site as the BCM via RDP or VNC,
> > > etc.
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> > What error are you getting, I have never had a problem upgrading
> > remotely?
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> > I have gotten time outs and what I did was to ping continually while
> > doing the the upgrade until it starts.- Hide quoted text -
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> I don't get an error - it just gets stuck on "Configuring FTP server
> on BCM..."
> I have configured the firewall to allow FTP through to the BCM, but no
> joy.
> I suspect that the BCM Update Wizard sets up BCM for the upgrade
> first, just the same as with a v4.0 system or a BCM50 (you tell the
> BCM it is going to be upgraded first, and then you upload the file via
> FTP).
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> I know that doing it onsite is far easier, but getting onsite for this
> BCM is difficult, and certainly doing it regularly to upload the
> patches as they come out is not really an option :-(
> As far as continually pinging it, the firewall blocks all pings.
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> Has anyone tried using a packet sniffer?- Hide quoted text -
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If you can't Ping it , you can't upgrade it.
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