3Com WX3000 operation manual FTP Configuration The Device Operating as an FTP Client

To do…	Use the command…	Remarks
		Use either command or both.
Configure a shell banner	header shell text	By default, no banner is
		configured.

For details about the header command, refer to the Login part of the manual.

Displaying FTP server information

To do…	Use the command…	Remarks
Display the information about FTP server	display ftp-server
configurations on the device
Display the source IP address set for an	display ftp-server source-ip	Available in any view
FTP server
Display the login FTP client on an FTP	display ftp-user
server

FTP Configuration: The Device Operating as an FTP Client

Basic configurations on an FTP client

By default the device can operate as an FTP client In this case you can connect the device to the FTP server to perform FTP-related operations (such as creating/removing a directory) by executing commands on the device.

Follow these steps to perform basic configurations on an FTP client:

To do…		Use the command…	Remarks
Enter FTP client view		ftp [ cluster remote-server	—
	[ port-number ] ]
Specify to transfer files in ASCII		ascii	Use either command
characters			By default, files are transferred
Specify to transfer files in
		binary	in ASCII characters.
binary streams
Set the data transfer mode to		passive	Optional
passive			passive by default.

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