HP Displaying and maintaining the TFTP client, TFTP client configuration example

To do…	Use the command…	Remarks
		Optional

Configure the source address of the TFTP client

tftp client source { interface interface-typeinterface-number ip source-ip-address}

A device uses the source address determined by the matched route to communicate with the TFTP server by default.

Return to user view	quit	—
	tftp server-address{ get put sget }
Download or upload a file in an	source-filename	Optional
	[ destination-filename ] [ source
IPv4 network	{ interface interface-type	Available in user view
	interface-number ip
	source-ip-address } ]

Download or upload a file in an IPv6 network

tftp ipv6 tftp-ipv6-server [ -i	Optional
interface-type interface-number ] { get
	Available in user view
put } source-file [ destination-file ]

NOTE:

•If no primary IP address is configured on the source interface, no TFTP connection can be established.

•If you use the ftp client source command to first configure the source interface and then the source IP address of the packets of the TFTP client, the new source IP address will overwrite the current one, and vice versa.

Displaying and maintaining the TFTP client

To do… Use the command… Remarks

Display the configuration of the TFTP client

display tftp client configuration	[
{ begin exclude include }	Available in any view
regular-expression ]

TFTP client configuration example

Network requirements

•As shown in Figure 40, use a PC as the TFTP server and the device as the TFTP client. Their IP addresses are 1.2.1.1/16 and 1.1.1.1/16 respectively. The device and PC can reach each other.

•The device downloads a system software image file from PC for upgrading and uploads a configuration file named config.cfg to PC for backup.

Figure 40 Smooth upgrading using the TFTP client function

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