Kentrox AI232 manual Downloads a file from the Tftp server, Uploads a file to the Tftp server

AI232 Version 9.6x User’s Guide

AI232 Commands: tftp

tftp



Note: This command is only available when AI232 is in standalone mode.

Description

This command downloads a file from the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server to AI232 or uploads a file to the TFTP server from AI232.

The following rules apply when uploading or downloading a file:

zFile names must contain an extension of .ini, .img, .zmg, .cnf, or .txt.

zConfiguration files can be downloaded directly to file primary.cnf or to another .cnf file.

zThe only .txt file allowed is banner.txt and the only .ini file allowed is boot.ini.

zAI232 must be updated in order to run a downloaded image file.

zAny .img filename is acceptable except boot.img, which is reserved, and primary_devel.img, which is the primary image.

zAll .zmg files must be written to a destination file with a .img extension. If no destination file name is given, the name will default to the source file name with a

.img extension.

zThe source and destination file names must have the same extension (excluding

.zmg files, which use a .img extension).

Command Type shell

Formats

tftp { get put } [ address ] [ source_filename ] [ dest_filename ]

Parameters

get	Downloads a file from the TFTP server.
put	Uploads a file to the TFTP server.
address	Defines the IP address of the TFTP server to which the file
	download or upload will occur.

source_filename Defines the file to download from or upload to the TFTP server.



Note: The source file name cannot contain spaces or special characters.

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