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Displaying and maintaining the tftp client, Network requirements, Configuration procedure – H3C Technologies H3C S7500E Series Switches User Manual

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

established.

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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…

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Display the configuration of the

TFTP client

display tftp client configuration

Available in any view

TFTP Client Configuration Example (Distributed Device)

Network requirements

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As shown in

Figure 7-2

, use a PC as the TFTP server and Device as the TFTP client. Their IP

addresses are 1.2.1.1/16 and 1.1.1.1/16 respectively. An available route exists between Device

and PC.

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Device downloads a startup file from PC for upgrading and uploads a configuration file named

config.cfg to PC for backup.

Figure 7-2 Smooth upgrading using the TFTP client function

Configuration procedure

1) Configure PC (TFTP Server), the configuration procedure is omitted.

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On the PC, enable the TFTP server

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Configure a TFTP working directory

2) Configure Device (TFTP Client)