ZyXEL Communications MES-3728 - FTP Command Line Procedure; GUI-Based FTP Clients; FTP Restrictions

Chapter 29 Maintenance
MES-3728 User’s Guide
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1 Be sure to upload the correct model firmware as uploading the wrong model
firmware may damage your device.
29.8.2 FTP Command Line Procedure
1 Launch the FTP client on your computer.
2 Enter
open, followed by a space and the IP address of your Switch.
3 Press [ENTER] when prompted for a username.
4 Enter your password as requested (the default is “1234”).
5 Enter
bin to set transfer mode to binary.
6 Use
put to transfer files from the computer to the Switch, for example, put
firmware.bin ras-0
transfers the firmware on your computer (firmware.bin) to the
Switch and renames it to “ras-0”. Similarly,
put config.cfg config transfers the
configuration file on your computer (config.cfg) to the Switch and renames it to
“config”. Likewise
get config config.cfg transfers the configuration file on the
Switch to your computer and renames it to “config.cfg”. See Table 93 on page 255 for
more information on filename conventions.
7 Enter
quit to exit the ftp prompt.
29.8.3 GUI-based FTP Clients
The following table describes some of the commands that you may see in GUI-based FTP
clients.
29.8.4 FTP Restrictions
FTP will not work when:
• FTP service is disabled in the Service Access Control screen.
• The IP address(es) in the Remote Management screen does not match the client IP
address. If it does not match, the Switch will disconnect the FTP session immediately.
General Commands for GUI-based FTP Clients
COMMAND DESCRIPTION
Host Address Enter the address of the host server.
Login Type Anonymous.
This is when a user I.D. and password is automatically supplied to the server
for anonymous access. Anonymous logins will work only if your ISP or
service administrator has enabled this option.
Normal.
The server requires a unique User ID and Password to login.
Transfer Type Transfer files in either ASCII (plain text format) or in binary mode.
Configuration and firmware files should be transferred in binary mode.
Initial Remote
Directory
Specify the default remote directory (path).
Initial Local Directory Specify the default local directory (path).