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Section A. UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS
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For users of Microsoft Windows, please run FN202.EXE
directly. It will search the Router on your LAN and ask
you to type system password. Just type in the password
and click "Upgrade" button. It takes about 30 seconds
to finish the whole procedure.

For users of other platforms, please refer Section D for
platform-independent upgrade.


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Section B. WARNING
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The files will upgrade the firmware of your Cable/DSL 
Router to version R2.02.

1. NOTE! DO NOT POWER OFF THE UNIT WHEN THE UNIT IS BEING
   UPGRADED, OR THE UNIT MAY BE DAMAGED.

2. The configuration will not be changed. You need not
   configure it again.


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Section C. CHANGE HISTORY
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*** R1.87 TO R2.02

1. Fix a security hole that was reported by:

     Matt Bing
     Anzen Computing, Inc.
     http://www.anzen.com

2. Solve a problem connecting to Adelphia.

3. Fix a bug that causes IP address renew problem.

4. Add a new function to view DHCP client list.

5. Fix a bug to handle multi-session IPSec.

6. Support Auto-reconnect feature

7. New look of user interface.

8. Improve keep-alive function for some ISPs.

9. Fix a bug for NetMeeting handling. You have to configure
   the DMZ setting to use NetMeeting.

10. Improve IPSec support for reconnect problem.

11. Improve IPSec pass-through support. No configuration
    is needed to connect to IPSec VPN server. To host an 
    IPSec VPN server on the private network, configure
    port 500 as Virtual Server.

12. Support more IPSec sessions (8).

13. Solve the incompatible issue of Sympatico (mts).

14. Fix a bug of DHCP client.

15. Add web-based upgrade feature.

16. Change text on Status screen: "Modem" to "Dial-up
Modem".

17. Add "Reset to Default" button.

18. Add feature to discard ping request from WAN.

19. Support mIRC DCC Chat & Send.

20. Increase the max length of user name to 53 characters
    for PPPoE and Dial-Up Network.

21. Fix bug of console mode that sometimes cannot accept 
    keystrokes.

22. Fix bug that caused log to display incorrect time.

23. Fix bug of Dial-Up Network that caused system hang when
    modem is powered off and on.

*** R1.86 TO R1.87e

1. Support virtual server loopback.

2. Support IRC DCC Chat & Send.

3. Support subnet mask for Remote Host Administration. Now,
   you can specify it as "209.15.18.0/24".

4. Fixed bug that causes configuration pages cannot be 
   displayed.

5. Fixed bug that causes "IP Address is already used" 
   problem when FTP.


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Section D. Platform-independent Firmware Upgrade
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* METHOD I: WEB UPGRADE

If your firmware is R1.88 or above, you can use your browser
to upgrade. Please follow steps below to upgrade:

1. Go to the Asante Web site to download firmware image
file,
   FN202.BIN. Remember the location you save this file.

2. Connect the Web user interface and login as system
   administrator.

3. Click the "Firmware Upgrade" button of "Miscellaneous" 
   page (for version R1.88 to R1.90) or "Advanced" page 
   (for version R1.95 and above). And the "Firmware
Upgrade" 
   screen will appear.

4. Enter the location of the previously downloaded file in 
   the text box, or click "Browse" button to search for the 
   file. And then click "Upgrade" button.


* METHOD II: FTP UPGRADE

1. Unzip FN202.ZIP to gain the following files:

     1. WF001.BIN
     2. WF002.BIN
     3. WF003.BIN

2. Use any FTP client you preferred to upload the above
three
   files one bye one. Just follow the NUMERICAL ORDER OF 
   FILENAMES to upload them.

   The username to login the FTP server is "root" and the 
   password is the same as the system administrator's. The
   default setting is "admin".

   Close the FTP session when the files are uploaded. It
   takes about 30 seconds. After the session is closed, the 
   router will be restarted automatically.

   The configuration will not be changed!


Illustration on Linux system:

  [Linux]$ ftp 192.168.123.254
  Connected to 192.168.123.254.
  220 FTPd 1.6
  Name (192.168.123.254:rupert): root
  331 Password required
  Password:
  230 User root logged in
  Remote system type is UNIX.
  Using binary mode to transfer files.
  ftp> put WF001.BIN
  local: WF001.BIN remote: WF001.BIN
  200 Port command successful
  150 Opening data connection
  226 Upgrade complete.
  129486 bytes sent in 0.257 secs (4.9e+02 Kbytes/sec)
  ftp> put WF002.BIN
  local: WF002.BIN remote: WF002.BIN
  200 Port command successful
  150 Opening data connection
  226 Upgrade complete.
  16416 bytes sent in 0.00938 secs (1.7e+03 Kbytes/sec)
  ftp> put WF003.BIN
  local: WF003.BIN remote: WF003.BIN
  200 Port command successful
  150 Opening data connection
  226 Upgrade complete.
  46332 bytes sent in 0.0267 secs (1.7e+03 Kbytes/sec)
  ftp> bye
  221 Rebooting