3com family 4500 User Manual

C

HAPTER

 6: U

PGRADING

 S

OFTWARE

To set the remaining Switches in the fabric to load the new bootrom 
firmware, replace 

unit1 with unit2 and so on for each Switch in the 

fabric.

3 You will now need to reboot the fabric for the changes to take effect. The 

Switch will upgrade the bootrom firmware and boot from the specified 
software 

.app file. 

The files that you have saved in the backup phase should be deleted once 
the upgrade has completed successfully.

To upgrade software to your Switch via FTP do the following:

1 Enter the following command from User View:

ftp aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa 

(where aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa is the IP address of the FTP server)

If the FTP server has been successfully located, the following information 
is displayed:

Trying...
Press CTRL+K to abort
Connected

Information on your FTP server is displayed, logon with your username 
and password.

2 To download the configuration file, enter:

The following information is displayed if the download has been 
successful:

200 PORT command successful.

150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 

vrpcfg.def(10986 bytes).......226 Transfer complete.

FTP: 10986 byte(s) received in 8.046 second(s) 1000.00 
byte(s)/sec.

3 Enter

 quit to exit.