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Chapter 39 Maintenance

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Be sure to upload the correct model firmware as uploading the wrong

model firmware may damage your device.

39.8.3 FTP Command Line Procedure

1 Launch the FTP client on your computer.

2 Enter open, followed by a space and the IP address of your Switch.

3 Press [ENTER] when prompted for a username.

4 Enter your password as requested (the default is “1234”).

5 Enter bin to set transfer mode to binary.

6 Use put to transfer files from the computer to the Switch, for example, put firmware.bin ras transfers

the firmware on your computer (firmware.bin) to the Switch and renames it to “ras”. Similarly, put

config.cfg config transfers the configuration file on your computer (config.cfg) to the Switch and

renames it to “config”. Likewise get config config.cfg transfers the configuration file on the Switch

to your computer and renames it to “config.cfg”. See Table 164 on page 330 for more information on

filename conventions.

7 Enter quit to exit the ftp prompt.

39.8.4 GUI-based FTP Clients

The following table describes some of the commands that you may see in GUI-based FTP clients.

39.8.5 FTP Restrictions

FTP will not work when:

• FTP service is disabled in the Service Access Control screen.

• The IP address(es) in the Remote Management screen does not match the client IP address. If it does

not match, the Switch will disconnect the FTP session immediately.

General Commands for GUI-based FTP Clients

COMMAND DESCRIPTION

Host Address Enter the address of the host server.

This is when a user I.D. and password is automatically supplied to the server for

anonymous access. Anonymous logins will work only if your ISP or service administrator

has enabled this option.

Normal.

The server requires a unique User ID and Password to login.

Transfer Type Transfer files in either ASCII (plain text format) or in binary mode. Configuration and

firmware files should be transferred in binary mode.

Initial Remote Directory Specify the default remote directory (path).

Initial Local Directory Specify the default local directory (path).