3Com WX3000 operation manual Host Configuration File Loading, Introduction to Loading Approaches

1 Host Configuration File Loading

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The term switch used throughout this document refers to a switching device in a generic sense or the switching engine of a WX3000 series.

The sample output information in this manual was created on the WX3024. The output information on your device may vary.

Traditionally, device software is loaded through a serial port. This approach is slow, time-consuming and cannot be used for remote loading. To resolve these problems, the TFTP and FTP modules are introduced into the device. With these modules, you can load/download software/files conveniently to the device through an Ethernet port.

This chapter introduces how to load the host configuration file to the device remotely.

Introduction to Loading Approaches

You can load software remotely by using:

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FTP TFTP

If your terminal is not directly connected to the device, you can telnet to the device, and use FTP or TFTP to load the host configuration file remotely.

Remote Loading Using FTP

Loading procedure using FTP client

1)Loading the host configuration file

As shown in Figure 1-1, a PC is used as both the configuration device and the FTP server. You can telnet to Switch, and then execute the FTP commands to download the host configuration file from the remote FTP server (whose IP address is 10.1.1.1) to Switch.

Figure 1-1Remote loading using FTP Client

Switch		PC
Ethernet port	Internet	10.1.1 .1
FTP Client		FTP Server

Step 1: Download the file to the device using FTP commands.

<device> oap connect slot 0

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