Chapter 24 Firmware and Configuration File Maintenance

4Enter “root” and your SMT password as requested. The default is 1234.

5Enter “bin” to set transfer mode to binary.

6Use “put” to transfer files from the computer to the ZyXEL Device for example “put firmware.bin ras” transfers the firmware on your computer (firmware.bin) to the ZyXEL Device and renames it “ras”. Similarly “put config.rom rom-0” transfers the configuration file on your computer (config.rom) to the ZyXEL Device and renames it “rom-0”. Likewise “get rom-0 config.rom” transfers the configuration file on the ZyXEL Device to your computer and renames it “config.rom.” See earlier in this chapter for more information on filename conventions.

7Enter “quit” to exit the FTP prompt.

Figure 162 FTP Session Example

331 Enter PASS command Password:

230 Logged in ftp> bin

200 Type I OK

ftp> put firmware.bin ras 200 Port command okay

150 Opening data connection for STOR ras

226 File received OK

ftp: 327680 bytes sent in 1.10Seconds 297.89Kbytes/sec.

ftp> quit

More commands that you may find in third party FTP clients are listed earlier in this chapter.

24.3.2 TFTP File Upload

The ZyXEL Device also supports the up/downloading of the firmware and the configuration file using TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) over LAN. Although TFTP should work over WAN as well, it is not recommended.

To use TFTP, your computer must have both telnet and TFTP clients. To transfer the firmware and the configuration file, follow the procedure shown next:

1Use telnet from your computer to connect to the ZyXEL Device and log in. Because TFTP does not have any security checks, the ZyXEL Device records the IP address of the telnet client and accepts TFTP requests only from this address.

2Put the SMT in command interpreter (CI) mode by entering 8 in Menu 24 – System Maintenance.

3Enter the command “sys stdio 0” to disable the SMT timeout, so the TFTP transfer will not be interrupted. Enter command “sys stdio 5” to restore the five-minute SMT timeout (default) when the file transfer is complete.

4Launch the TFTP client on your computer and connect to the ZyXEL Device. Set the transfer mode to binary before starting data transfer.

5Use the TFTP client (see the example below) to transfer files between the ZyXEL Device and the computer. The file name for the firmware is “ras” and the configuration file is “rom-0” (rom-zero, not capital o).

 

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