GE ML1600 User Manual

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MULTILINK ML1600 ETHERNET COMMUNICATIONS SWITCH – INSTRUCTION MANUAL

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

CHAPTER 5: IP ADDRESSING

Additional capabilities have been added to save and load configurations. The commands
are:

ftp type= host=
ip= file= user= pass=
tftp type= host=
ip= file=
xmodem type=

The arguments are describe below:

type

Specifies whether a log file or host file is uploaded or downloaded. This can also
perform the task of exporting a configuration file or uploading a new image to
the switch

host

file

user

pass

: These parameters are associated with ftp/tftp server

communications.

The user can save the configuration in old (v2 format) and new (v3 format). The v3 format
must be used to utilize the ASCII and CLI Script capability.

save [format=v2|v3]

Note

With release 1.7 and higher, the configuration can be saved in the older format (binary
object) or in a new format as an ASCII file. The new format is recommended by GE Multilin.
Use the old format only if there are multiple MultiLink switches on the network running
different versions of software. GE Multilin recommends upgrading all switches to the most
current software release.

To ease the process of uploading and executing a series of commands, the ML1600 can
create a host (equivalent to creating a host table on many systems). The command for
creating a host is:

host name= ip= user=
pass=

The

show host

command displays the host table entries

ML1600#

access

ML1600(access)##

host add name=server ip=192.168.5.2

Host added successfully

ML1600(access)##

show host

Host Name

IP Address

User

Password

=========================================

server

192.168.5.2

******

ML1600(access)##