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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 16:50 Post subject:
the-joker wrote:
And in the meanwhile @Mr R Design has not replied with any feedback.
And that is perfectly fine. If we're going to comment about such things, there's over 1000 tickets on Trac that have not been followed up on, either. It is what it is, a smoldering trash fire, in the words of folks on other sites. _________________ "Life is but a fleeting moment, a vapor that vanishes quickly; All is vanity"
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And in the meanwhile @Mr R Design has not replied with any feedback.
Not replied because the original question I asked has still not been answered which was:
'Can I download the build to a flash drive plugged in to the router and update safely that way or does something happen during the process which will cause things to throw a wobbly?'
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 8:50 Post subject:
So, basically you want to flash via CLI from the USB drive. Probably not impossible, but caveat emptor. The good thing is the R7000 is pretty easy to de-brick, should anything go awry. This would definitely have to be done via CLI, though. Sorry, I completely overlooked that part of the question _________________ "Life is but a fleeting moment, a vapor that vanishes quickly; All is vanity"
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And in the meanwhile @Mr R Design has not replied with any feedback.
Not replied because the original question I asked has still not been answered which was:
'Can I download the build to a flash drive plugged in to the router and update safely that way or does something happen during the process which will cause things to throw a wobbly?'
At the moment, no checksum is provided together with the firmware image to verify the file integrity before flashing, so fewer intermediate steps means less chance for data corruption to occur.
In my opinion, downloading the firmware directly to router's RAM mounted temp folder is safer than to use PC to download firmware to USB drive, then safely remove USB drive from PC, then copy firmware from USB drive to router, and finally flash.
Trying to work out if it is safe to download the build direct to the network attached storage (flash drive already plugged in to the router) instead of the laptop and then update via the GUI.
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 9:39 Post subject:
I wouldn't advise you to update via the webUI that way, and you introduce more risks doing so over a network attached storage. @IONK: I have no idea why someone would think that you would put the file on USB and then copy it to the tmp folder to flash it? Use the applicable mount point and change into that directory from the shell... I guess I should have been much more specific. _________________ "Life is but a fleeting moment, a vapor that vanishes quickly; All is vanity"
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.... I asked has still not been answered which was:
'Can I download the build to a flash drive plugged in to the router and update safely that way or does something happen during the process which will cause things to throw a wobbly?'
Since I had the flash drive setup as a samba share I downloaded the firmware & just stuck it on the flash drive all from computer I was on.
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No reason why you can't wget 'firmware you need' straight to the flash drive and write it to the router...
...if for some weird reason you just don't won't to download it to router's /tmp directory.....taint gonna hurt a thing and it will go away if/when router is rebooted anyways
Trying to work out if it is safe to download the build direct to the network attached storage (flash drive plugged in to the router) instead of the laptop and then update via the GUI.
@IONK: I have no idea why someone would think that you would put the file on USB and then copy it to the tmp folder to flash it? Use the applicable mount point and change into that directory from the shell... I guess I should have been much more specific.
Hello, so just as a reminder and to refresh whats been said on this subject.
The alternative mode of flashing the firmware which would work over ANY connection type automatically after 60 seconds.
1) Connect via SSH/SCP/SFTP/TELNET/FTP to router
2) Rename the updated FW file to firmware.bin and upload to the /tmp folder.
3) Wait 30/60 seconds and the router will detect this file and flash itself without user interaction, then should reboot itself when done.
As I have seen this written more than once lately I tried it on R7500v2.
47695->47703
It doesn't happen. Waited 20+ minutes then ran it manually.
Code:
root@7500:/tmp# ls -l /tmp/firmware.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22605824 Nov 30 10:17 /tmp/firmware.bin
