Amino

[Alex Moen]

You should be getting your Amino's with the Minerva software flashed onto it from your distributor.  You should not need to do this yourself, although 
it is kind of nice to go through that process for upgrades later on. One thing that Amino has is a "browser code" software release, that allows you to 
type in multicast addresses, but does not use any middleware.  These are great for testing, not so great for customers.  If you got a big shipment of 
these browser code versions, someone somewhere made a mistake, because you should be getting the Minerva load from your Amino distributor for normal 
customer use.

This is not confined to Amino, BTW... Motorola and ADB (at least) also require that you purchase the STB that matches your ecosystem.  ADB and Moto 
don't have quite as an elaborate process to get their software, so they're a little easier to work with.

Alex

Gideon Viator wrote:
> Your Amino STB must have a base low level software flashed to it from the
> distributor. It also must be for the middleware you are using. You then 
> need
> the bootstrap and mcthink files to load on your mcastbootd server. I got
> mine from Minerva because thats the middleware i'm using. If not you 
> have to
> have a support contract with Amino to get it.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Gideon Viator
> IT Administrator
> Kaplan Telephone
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <mschober at nts-online.net>
> To: "Users of ISC DHCP" <dhcp-users at lists.isc.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 5:25 PM
> Subject: RE: Amino
> 
> 
>>> How did you get the software for the 130 and do you still have it. Our
>>> salesman said this box has no software on it and we need to load it 
>>> to our
>>> server.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org
>>> [mailto:dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of AJ Grinnell
>>> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 2:55 PM
>>> To: Users of ISC DHCP
>>> Subject: Re: Amino
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is what I am using
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> class "AmiNET130 mboot"
>>> {
>>>   match if (option vendor-class-identifier="aminoAMINET130mboot<bootrom
>>> version>") or
>>>            ((substring(option vendor-encapsulated-options, 2,
>>> 9)="AMINET130")
>>>             and (substring(option vendor-encapsulated-options, 13,
>>> 5)="mboot"));
>>>
>>>   vendor-option-space AMINO;
>>>   option AMINO.address 225.50.51.52;
>>>   option AMINO.port 11111;
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> class "AmiNET130 upgrd"
>>> {
>>>   match if (option vendor-class-identifier="Aminoaminet130upgrd") or
>>>            ((substring( option
>>> vendor-encapsulated-options,2,9)="aminet130")
>>>             and (substring( option
>>> vendor-encapsulated-options,13,5)="upgrd"));
>>>
>>>   vendor-option-space AMINO;
>>>   option AMINO.address 225.50.51.53;
>>>   option AMINO.port 11111;
>>> }
>>>
>>> #
>>> class "AmiNET130 fisys"
>>> {
>>>   match if (option vendor-class-identifier="Aminoaminet130fisys") or
>>>            ((substring( option vendor-encapsulated-options, 2,
>>> 9)="aminet130")
>>>             and (substring(option vendor-encapsulated-options, 13,
>>> 5)="fisys"));
>>>   vendor-option-space AMINO;
>>>   option AMINO.middleware 239.255.255.1;
>>>   option AMINO.mw_port 4545;
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Matt Faggione <mattf at etex.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Has anyone setup an Amino 130 on their dhcpd.conf file If so can you 
>>> tell
>>> me
>>> what the VCI are for Minerva middleware?
>>>
>>>
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>> I'll look Monday and see what I have.  Amino has been so helpful to us
>> that we're switching to ADB boxes.  Minerva has pushed anything to do 
>> with
>> STBs back on the STB manufacturers (software, DHCP settings, etc.).  
>> Amino
>> is supposed to come see me the first week of Feb.  We'll see what their
>> attitude is then.
>>
>> Milton
>>
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