H3C Technologies H3C S5120 Series Switches - Manual (Page 280)

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z If you use the tftp client source command and the tftp command to specify a source address
respectively, the source address configured with the tftp command is used to communicate with a
TFTP server.
The source address specified with the tftp client source command is valid for all TFTP connections
and the source address specified with the tftp command is valid only for the current tftp connection.
Follow these steps to configure the TFTP client:
To do… Use the command… Remarks
Enter system view system-view —
Use an ACL to control the
device’s access to TFTP
servers
tftp-server acl acl-number
Optional
By default, no ACL is used to
control the device’s access to
TFTP servers.
Configure the source address
of the TFTP client
tftp client source { interface
interface-type interface-number
| ip source-ip-address }
Optional
A device uses the source
address determined by the
matched route to communicate
with the TFTP server by
default.
Return to user view quit —
Download or upload a file
tftp server-address { get | put |
sget } source-filename
[ destination-filename ]
[ source { interface
interface-type interface-number
| ip source-ip-address } ]
Optional
Available in user view
z If no primary IP address is configured on the source interface, no TFTP connection can be
established.
z 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… Remarks
Display the configuration of the
TFTP client
display tftp client configuration Available in any view