Administrator Guide

File Transfer Services
With Dell Networking OS, you can congure the system to transfer les over the network using the le transfer protocol (FTP).
One FTP application is copying the system image les over an interface on to the system; however, FTP is not supported on virtual local
area network (VLAN) interfaces.
If you want the FTP or TFTP server to use a VRF table that is attached to an interface, you must congure the FTP or TFTP server to use
a specic routing table. You can use the ip ftp vrf vrf-name or ip tftp vrf vrf-name command to inform the FTP or TFTP
server to use a specic routing table. After you congure this setting, the VRF table is used to look up the destination address. However,
these changes are backward-compatible and do not aect existing behavior; meaning, you can still use the source-interface
command to communicate with a particular interface even if no VRF is congured on that interface.
For more information about FTP, refer to RFC 959, File Transfer Protocol.
NOTE: To transmit large les, Dell Networking recommends conguring the switch as an FTP
server.
Conguration Task List for File Transfer Services
The conguration tasks for le transfer services are:
• Enable FTP Server (mandatory)
• Congure FTP Server Parameters (optional)
• Congure FTP Client Parameters (optional)
Enabling the FTP Server
To enable the system as an FTP server, use the following command.
To view FTP conguration, use the show running-config ftp command in EXEC privilege mode.
• Enable FTP on the system.
CONFIGURATION mode
ftp-server enable
Example of Viewing FTP Conguration
Dell#show running ftp
!
ftp-server enable
ftp-server username nairobi password 0 zanzibar
Dell#
Conguring FTP Server Parameters
After you enable the FTP server on the system, you can congure dierent parameters.
To specify the system logging settings, use the following commands.
• Specify the directory for users using FTP to reach the system.
CONFIGURATION mode
ftp-server topdir dir
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