Allied Telesis AT-WA7501, AT-WA7500 manual Using Tftp Commands, Script

Using TFTP Commands

AT-WA7500 and AT-WA7501 Installation and User’s Guide

FE

Purpose: Erases all the files in a particular segment, including those that have been “deleted” with FDEL. To recover the files after they have been erased, you must reload them from another source.

Note

You must execute the FE command before you execute a TFTP transfer.

Syntax: FE s

where s is the segment to be erased. You can use any segment number or name (1, 2, 3, 4, id, ib, ad, or ab) to specify the one flash memory segment on the access point.

Example: To erase the contents of the flash memory segment, enter:

FE 1

To erase the contents of the memory card, enter:

FE app:

SCRIPT

Purpose: Executes a specified file as a list of console commands. You can create a script file to automate a software download.

Syntax: SCRIPT f

where f is the name of the script file to be executed.

For more information about using the script command, see “Creating Script Files” on page 288.

TFTP commands are file transfer commands. An access point can act as either a client or server in the TFTP environment. As a server, the access point can service read and write requests from an access point client. As a client, the access point can read files from and write files to any TFTP server on the network. Both the client and server must operate in octet, or 8-bit, mode.

When executing a script file, the access point retries TFTP client commands get and put until the command is successfully completed. If the first attempt fails, the access point retries after a one-minute delay. With each successive failure, the retry time doubles until it reaches eight minutes. Once this limit is reached, it remains at eight minutes until the command is completed.

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