Chapter 44 Maintenance
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44.8.2 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 (the default is “admin”).
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-0 transfers the firmware on your computer (firmware.bin) to
the Switch and renames it to “ras-0”. 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 141 on page
392 for more information on filename conventions.
7 Enter quit to exit the ftp prompt.
44.8.3 GUI-based FTP Clients
The following table describes some of the commands that you may see in GUI-
based FTP clients.
Table 142 General Commands for GUI-based FTP Clients
COMMAND DESCRIPTION
Host Address Enter the address of the host server.
Login Type Anonymous.
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).
