Allied Telesis AT-S63 - Manual (Page 230)

Chapter 15: File Download and Upload Commands
230 Section II: Advanced Operations
ˆ There must be a node on your network that contains TFTP server
software and the file to be downloaded must be stored on the server.
ˆ You should start the TFTP server software before you perform the
download command.
ˆ The switch where you are downloading the file must have an IP
address and subnet mask, such as a master switch. For switches
without an IP address, such as a slave switch, you can perform an
Xmodem download from a local management session or, alternatively,
a switch to switch upload using “UPLOAD
METHOD=REMOTESWITCH” on page 238.
ˆ If you are downloading a configuration file, the switch does not
automatically designate it as its active boot configuration file. To
designate a configuration file as the active boot file after you have
downloaded it onto the switch, refer to “SET CONFIG” on page 219.
ˆ The AT-S63 software image can be downloaded only onto an AT-9400
Series switch.
ˆ The current configuration of a switch is retained when a new AT-S63
software image is installed.
ˆ The AT-S63 image file contains the bootloader for the switch. You
cannot load the image file and bootloader separately.
ˆ If you download a new AT-S63 image file and enter a filename for the
DESTFILE parameter instead of APPBLOCK, the file is stored in the
switch’s file system. To copy the image file from the file system to the
application block so that its used by the switch as its active image file,
refer to “UPLOAD METHOD=LOCAL” on page 236.
Note
Downloading an AT-S63 image file into a switch’s file system rather
than into the application block should be perform with care. The file
will take up 2 megabytes of space in the file system.
ˆ If you download a file onto a flash memory card in the switch and later
want to copy the file from the card to a switch’s file system, refer to
“COPY” on page 210.
Examples
The following command downloads a new configuration file into the
switch’s file system using TFTP. The configuration file is stored as “sw
111.cfg” on the TFTP server and is given the name “sw56a.cfg” when
stored in the switch’s file system. The TFTP server has the IP address
149.55.55.55:
load method=tftp destfile=sw56a.cfg server=149.55.55.55
srcfile=”sw 111.cfg”