[177615] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: cable modem firmware upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Anderson)
Wed Jan 28 23:19:59 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Nathan Anderson <nathana@fsr.com>
To: 'A MEKKAOUI' <amekkaoui@mektel.ca>, "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:19:48 -0800
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On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:11 PM, A MEKKAOUI wrote:
> Anyone knows how to upgrade Motorola SB6120 cable modem firmware other
> than going through the internet provider? Your help will be appreciated.
My employer managed a handful of small DOCSIS networks for a while where 99% of the modems were Motorola, and as far as I know, there is no way to push a firmware update to the modem from the ethernet side...only from the RF side. And trust me: I looked. If I ever had to update the firmware on some batch of modems that weren't already deployed on a network, I would hook them up to a test CMTS that we had on the bench in order to do so.
I would strongly suspect that this is going to hold true for just about any DOCSIS modem.
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Nathan Anderson
First Step Internet, LLC
nathana@fsr.com
