File Transfer Services
With Dell Networking OS, you can congure the system to transfer les over the network using the le transfer protocol (FTP).
One FTP application is copying the system image les over an interface on to the system; however, FTP is not supported on virtual local
area network (VLAN) interfaces.
If you want the FTP or TFTP server to use a VRF table that is attached to an interface, you must congure the FTP or TFTP server to use
a specic routing table. You can use the ip ftp vrf vrf-name or ip tftp vrf vrf-name command to inform the FTP or TFTP
server to use a specic routing table. After you congure this setting, the VRF table is used to look up the destination address. However,
these changes are backward-compatible and do not aect existing behavior; meaning, you can still use the source-interface
command to communicate with a particular interface even if no VRF is congured on that interface.
For more information about FTP, refer to RFC 959, File Transfer Protocol.
NOTE: To transmit large les, Dell Networking recommends conguring the switch as an FTP
server.
Conguration Task List for File Transfer Services
The conguration tasks for le transfer services are:
• Enable FTP Server (mandatory)
• Congure FTP Server Parameters (optional)
• Congure FTP Client Parameters (optional)
Enabling the FTP Server
To enable the system as an FTP server, use the following command.
To view FTP conguration, use the show running-config ftp command in EXEC privilege mode.
• Enable FTP on the system.
CONFIGURATION mode
ftp-server enable
Example of Viewing FTP Conguration
Dell#show running ftp
!
ftp-server enable
ftp-server username nairobi password 0 zanzibar
Dell#
Conguring FTP Server Parameters
After you enable the FTP server on the system, you can congure dierent parameters.
To specify the system logging settings, use the following commands.
• Specify the directory for users using FTP to reach the system.
CONFIGURATION mode
ftp-server topdir dir
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