Kentrox AI232 User Manual

AI232 Version 9.6x User’s Guide

AI232 Commands: tftp

tftp



Note: This command is only available when AI232 is in standalone mode.

This command downloads a file from the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server 
to AI232 or uploads a file to the TFTP server from AI232.

The following rules apply when uploading or downloading a file:

z

File names must contain an extension of .ini, .img, .zmg, .cnf, or .txt.

z

Configuration files can be downloaded directly to file primary.cnf or to another .cnf 
file.

z

The only .txt file allowed is banner.txt and the only .ini file allowed is boot.ini.

z

AI232 must be updated in order to run a downloaded image file.

z

Any .img filename is acceptable except boot.img, which is reserved, and 
primary_devel.img, which is the primary image.

z

All .zmg files must be written to a destination file with a .img extension. If no 
destination file name is given, the name will default to the source file name with a 
.img extension.

z

The source and destination file names must have the same extension (excluding 
.zmg files, which use a .img extension).

shell

tftp { get | put } [ 

address

 ] [ 

source_filename

 ] [ 

dest_filename

 ]

get

Downloads a file from the TFTP server.

put

Uploads a file to the TFTP server.

address

Defines the IP address of the TFTP server to which the file 
download or upload will occur.

source_filename

Defines the file to download from or upload to the TFTP server.



Note: The source file name cannot contain spaces or special 

characters.