Operation Manual - System Management
Quidway S3500 Series Ethernet Switches Chapter 1 File System Management
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z The configuration files in flash are damaged. (A common case is that a wrong
configuration file has been downloaded.)
1.3 FTP
1.3.1 FTP Overview
FTP is a common way to transmit files on the Internet and IP network. Before the World
Wide Web (WWW), files were transmitted in the command line mode and FTP was the
most popular application. Even now, FTP is still used widely, while most users transmit
files via Email and Web.
FTP, a TCP/IP protocol on the application layer, is used for transmitting files between a
remote server and a local host.
The Ethernet switch provides the following FTP services:
z FTP server: You can run FTP client program to log in the server and access the
files on it.
z FTP client: After connected to the server through running the terminal emulator or
Telnet on a PC, you can access the files on it, using FTP command.
Switch
PC
Network
SwitchSwitch
PC
Network
Figure 1-1 FTP configuration
Table 1-8 Configuration of the switch as FTP client
Device Configuration Default Description
Switch
Log into the remote FTP
server directly with the
ftp command.
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You need first get FTP user
command and password, and then
log into the remote FTP server.
Then you can get the directory and
file authority.
PC
Start FTP server and
make such settings as
username, password,
authority.
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