Experience: improving the efficiency of network operations to vrouters

When we use a vro for networking, we can consider upgrading the vro system in case of frequent disconnection of similar routers, so as to promptly correct the bugs of the vro system, make sure that the vro work more efficiently!

Upgrade a vro

Generally, upgrading a vro is to refresh the firmware of the vro and upgrade the firmware version to the latest status. Now, this article is to TP-Link brand model for the TL-WR541G + wireless router for the blueprint for the operation, to all of you know in detail on the router to upgrade the specific operation process.

First, we should log on to the official website of the corresponding brand products to find and download the corresponding vro firmware upgrade program. Since the vro we use here is the TP-Link brand, so we can first open the IE browser, and in the browser address box enter the TP-Link company's official website-http://www.tp-link.com.cn, click the Enter key, open the official TP-Link website page shown in 1;

Figure 1:

Click the "Product Center"/"wireless network product" hyperlink on the website page, and find the vro device of the Target Model on the corresponding link page. Of course, because there are many models, it may be difficult to search directly on the page. At this time, we can also directly enter the specific product model in "Product Search" on the official website homepage, for example, here we can enter the "TL-WR541G +" keyword, and then click the "Search" button, in this way, we can quickly find the target vro product from the official website of TP-Link;

Click the target vro product to go to the corresponding product page, and then click the "Download" tab to go To the tag page shown in 2, on this page, we can see many version upgrade programs. Before officially downloading the program, we also need to ensure that the target Download file matches the specific model and hardware version of the local router device. Otherwise, the router upgrade operation will fail. Generally, the hardware version information of the router device, we can find directly from the nameplate of the router device, for example, the local network using the router Model is TL-WR541G +, the hard disk version number of the router device is V4, at this point we should click the "TL-WR541G + V1/TL-WR541G V4 (070728) Upgrade Program" hyperlink on the tab page in Figure 2, and then download the corresponding Upgrade Program and save it to the local workstation hard disk.

Figure 2:

Hosts file, so that we can automatically set up a local workstation as a simple TFTP server.

Next, in the local workstation system, run the IE browser program and enter the default IP address of the router device in the address box of the browser. This address can often be obtained directly from the operation manual of the router device, generally, the default address is 192.168.1.1). Click the Enter key To Go To The vro background logon page. on this page, enter the account name and password of the system administrator, click OK to go to The vro device background management interface. In the left-side area of the Management Interface, click system tools/software upgrade with the mouse, on the right-side display page of the corresponding "software upgrade" option, we will not only see the current hardware and software version of the router device, but also see two text boxes, in the TFTP Server IP address text box, we can directly enter the IP address in the local workstation here, in the "file name" text box, copy and paste the "bin" file name in the temporary folder of the local workstation.

After confirming that the above information is correctly set, click the "Upgrade" button on the corresponding page, so that the router system will automatically perform the firmware version upgrade operation; if no unexpected occurs during the upgrade process, the router system will automatically restart after a while, so that the router software upgrade task will be successfully completed. The upgraded vro will not only greatly improve the running performance, but also ensure the security performance.

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