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AI232 Version 9.6x User’s Guide
AI232 Commands: tftp
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tftp
Note: This command is only available when AI232 is in standalone mode.
Description
This command downloads a file from the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server
to AI232 or uploads a file to the TFTP server from AI232.
The following rules apply when uploading or downloading a file:
z File names must contain an extension of .ini, .img, .zmg, .cnf, or .txt.
z Configuration files can be downloaded directly to file primary.cnf or to another .cnf
file.
z The only .txt file allowed is banner.txt and the only .ini file allowed is boot.ini.
z AI232 must be updated in order to run a downloaded image file.
z Any .img filename is acceptable except boot.img, which is reserved, and
primary_devel.img, which is the primary image.
z All .zmg files must be written to a destination file with a .img extension. If no
destination file name is given, the name will default to the source file name with a
.img extension.
z The source and destination file names must have the same extension (excluding
.zmg files, which use a .img extension).
Command Type
shell
Formats
tftp { get | put } [
address
] [
source_filename
] [
dest_filename
]
Parameters
get
Downloads a file from the TFTP server.
put
Uploads a file to the TFTP server.
address
Defines the IP address of the TFTP server to which the file
download or upload will occur.
source_filename
Defines the file to download from or upload to the TFTP server.
Note: The source file name cannot contain spaces or special
characters.