NesiGate 2.8.2 is a maintenance release & is now available (Feb 15, 2007)

This release is available as a no-charge upgrade to customers who have NESiGate units still in their warranty period, or to customers who have elected to purchase the NESiGate Firmware Support option. If you are unsure of your current support status, please contact support@netex.com.

New Key Requirement: NESiGate Release 2.8.x requires a new NESiGate key to be installed if upgrading from a release prior to Release 2.8. Customers that are upgrading from Release 2.8 or higher do not require a new NESiGate key, since the Release 2.8.x key will continue to work with Release 2.8.2.

If a new NESiGate key is needed, request a new key by sending an e-mail to support@netex.com. Include the serial numbers of all of your NESiGate appliances in the request, along with the type
of each NESiGate (CA, CO, LO, or HG). Netex Support will return the new NESiGate keys after verifying your current support status

1) Support for a new higher performing ESCON channel board (PXSA4) has been added. However, this release will also continue to support the existing ESCON channel boards (PBSA4).

2) An 'HTTP Downloads' page has been added to NESiGate. This page can be used for retrieving configuration files from the appliance.

These features and enhancements represent a continuation of the enhancements that were introduced in NESiGate Release 2.8 and continued with Release 2.8.1

All new manuals

To upgrade from a 2.7.x version, you may download the current product release from ftp.netexsw.com.  Login as anonymous, cd downloads/nesigate-install, binary, get nesi-inst.  If your web browser is properly configured, download the current release from:      ftp://ftp.netexsw.com/downloads/nesigate-install/nesi-inst

• For NESiGate(s) running version 2.7.5 or above, you may use 'receiveFile' from the CLI or web interface to place the downloaded file in the proper directory, then use 'nesigateStop' and 'installNesigate' from the CLI or web interface to perform the installation.
• For NESiGate(s) running version 2.7.2 – 2.7.4, store the downloaded ‘nesi-inst’ file into
  directory '/home/nesi/mnt' on NESiGate. Ensure it is executable by issuing the command:
      chmod +x nesi-inst
  Then install it by running 'nesi-inst' with the proper parameters for the NESiGate type.

To upgrade from a NESiGate version older than 2.7.2, you must acquire the OS CD set and upgrade the NESiGate as described in the 2.7.2 Release Announcement and in the Software Installation manual.  The software is on a set of 5 CDs. Three CDs contain the NESiGate operating system, one the NESiGate product (CA, CO, LO or GW), and one an OS recovery CD.  Please contact NetEx support in order to obtain the CD set.

You may also download and burn the OS recovery and NESiGate product CDs yourself from: ftp://ftp.netexsw.com/downloads/nesigate-install/BootCD-R2.7.5.iso and ftp://ftp.netexsw.com/downloads/nesigate-install/nesi-inst.iso

In accordance with our Service Policy:
Support for releases 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5 ended on November 30, 2006.
Support for NESiGate release 2.7.6 will end on April 1, 2007.
Support for NESiGate release 2.8 will end on June 7, 2007.
Support for NESiGate release 2.8.1 will end on August 15, 2007.

If you have any questions, please contact support@netex.com.