R3204P16-HP Load Balancing Module System Maintenance Configuration Guide-6PW101

FTP client configuration example

Network requirements

• As shown in Figure 29, use LB module as an FTP client and PC as the FTP server. Their IP addresses

are 10.2.1.1/16 and 10.1.1.1/16 respectively. LB module and PC are reachable to each other.

• LB module downloads a boot file from PC for upgrade, and uploads the configuration file to PC for

backup.

• On PC, an FTP user account has been created for the FTP client, with the username abc and the

password abc.

Figure 29 Network diagram for FTPing a boot file from an FTP server

Configuration procedure

CAUTION:

If the available memory space of the LB module is not enough, use the fixdisk command to clear the

memory or use the delete /unreserved

file

url

command to delete the files not in use and then perform the

following operations.

# Log in to the server through FTP.

<Sysname> ftp 10.1.1.1

Trying 10.1.1.1

Connected to 10.1.1.1

220 WFTPD 2.0 service (by Texas Imperial Software) ready for new user

User(10.1.1.1:(none)):abc

331 Give me your password, please

Password:

230 Logged in successfully

# Set the file transfer mode to binary to transmit boot file.

[ftp] binary

200 Type set to I.

# Download the boot file newest.bin from PC to LB module.

[ftp] get newest.bin

# Upload the configuration file config.cfg of LB module to the server for backup.

[ftp] ascii

[ftp] put config.cfg back-config.cfg

227 Entering Passive Mode (10,1,1,1,4,2).

125 ASCII mode data connection already open, transfer starting for /config.cfg.

226 Transfer complete.

FTP: 3494 byte(s) sent in 5.646 second(s), 618.00 byte(s)/sec.

[ftp] bye

Internet

10.1.1.1/16

FTP server

FTP client

10.2.1.1/16