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Task  Remarks 
Basic configurations on a TFTP client  — 
TFTP Configuration: A Switch 
Operating as a TFTP Client
 
Specifying the source interface or source IP 
address for an FTP client
 
Optional 
TFTP server configuration  For details, see the corresponding manual  — 
 
TFTP Configuration: A Switch Operating as a TFTP Client 
Basic configurations on a TFTP client 
By default a switch can operate as a TFTP client. In this case you can connect the switch to the TFTP 
server to perform TFTP-related operations (such as creating/removing a directory) by executing 
commands on the switch. 
Follow these steps to perform basic configurations on a TFTP client: 
To do…  Use the command…  Remarks 
Download a file from a TFTP 
server 
tftp tftp-server get source-file 
[ dest-file ] 
Optional 
Upload a file to a TFTP server 
tftp tftp-server put source-file 
[ dest-file ] 
Optional 
Enter system view 
system-view 
— 
Set the file transmission mode  tftp { ascii | binary } 
Optional 
Binary by default. 
Specify an ACL rule used by 
the specified TFTP client to 
access a TFTP server 
tftp-server acl acl-number 
Optional 
Not specified by default. 
 
Specifying the source interface or source IP address for an FTP client 
You can specify the source interface and source IP address for a switch operating as a TFTP client, so 
that it can connect with a remote TFTP server through the IP address of the specified interface or the 
specified IP address. 
Follow these steps to specify the source interface and source IP address for a TFTP client: 
To do…  Use the command…  Remarks 
Specify the source interface 
used for the current connection 
tftp tftp-server 
source-interface 
interface-type interface-number 
{ get source-file [ dest-file ] | put 
source-file-url [ dest-file ] } 
Optional 
Not specified by default. 
Specify the source IP address 
used for the current connection 
tftp tftp-server source-ip 
ip-address { get source-file 
[ dest-file ] | put source-file-url 
[ dest-file ] } 
Optional 
Not specified by default. 
Enter system view 
system-view 
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