Upgrading the Software 93
0. Reboot
Enter your
Enter your
Please input ’0’ or ’1’ (’0’:Boot from Flash, ’1’:Boot from CF card)
BootDev = 0
FlashFileName = Switch 8800
Upgrading the Software If your terminal is connected to the switch over a network, you can load the Boot Using the CLI ROM and host programs remotely through the CLI using FTP. or TFTP
Using FTP
1Run the FTP server on a local PC, provided you have configured username and password and have set the correct file directory. Specify the PC’s IP address (for example, 10.10.110.1 in the example below).
2Log on to the switch using Telnet or through the Console port to send host program to the switch using FTP.
3Using the Get command, download the main boot file (SWITCH002.app in the example below), the active host program (SWITCH001.app in the example below), and the Boot ROM program (SWITCHbtm.btm in the example below.
<3Com> 10.19.110.1 Trying ...
Press CTRL+K to abort Connected.
220 WFTPD 2.0 service (by Texas Imperial Software) ready for new user User(none):8500
331 Give me your password, please Password:
230 Logged in successfully
[ftp] get SWITCH002.app SWITCH002.app
[ftp] get Switchbtm.btm Switchbtm.btm
[ftp] bye
n If the switch has two fabrics, you also can copy the host and Boot ROM program files to the standby Fabric.
4Specify the next boot program. If the switch has two fabrics, specify the load programs respectively for the active and standby fabrics (the current standby fabric is in slot 7 in the example below).
aLoad Boot ROM program
<3Com> boot bootrom flash:/Switchbtm.btm slot 6 <3Com> boot bootrom slot7#flash:/Switchbtm.btm slot 7
bLoad host program
<3Com> boot
n | The URL form of the files in the standby fabric file system must start with | ||
“slot[No.]#flash:/”, where [No.] is the standby fabric number. | |||
| <3Com> display |
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| The app to boot of board 6 at the next time | is: flash:/SWITCH002.app | |
| The app to boot of board 6 at this time is: | flash:/SWITCH002.app | |
| The app to boot of board 7 | at the next time | is: flash:/SWITCH002.app |
| The app to boot of board 7 | at this time is: flash:/SWITCH002.app | |
| <3Com> reboot |
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