Using FTP to upload the firmware and configuration files

Using FTP

to Upload the Firmware and Configuration Files

In addition to upload the firmware and configuration file via the console port and TFTP client, you can also upload the firmware and configuration files to the Prestige using FTP.

To use this feature, your workstation must have a FTP client software. There are two examples as shown below.

1. Using FTP command in terminal
2. Using FTP client software

1. Using FTP command in terminal

Step 1 | Use FTP client from your workstation to connect to the Prestige by entering the IP address of the Prestige.
Step 2 | Press 'Enter' key to ignore the username, because the Prestige does not check the username.
Step 3 | Enter the SMT password as the FTP login password, the default is '1234'.
Step 4 | Enter command 'bin' to set the transfer type to binary.
Step 5 | Use 'put' command to transfer the file to the Prestige.

Note: The remote file name for the firmware is 'ras' and for the configuration file is 'rom-0' (rom-zero, not capital o).

Example:

`C:\temp>ftp 192.168.1.1
Connected to 192.168.1.1
220 FTP version 1.0 ready at Thu Jan 1 00:02:09 1970
User (192.168.1.1:(none)): <Enter>
331 Enter PASS command
Password:****
230 Logged in
ftp> bin
200 Type I OK
ftp> put prestige.bin ras
200 Port command okay
150 Opening data connection for STOR ras
226 File received OK
ftp: 924512 bytes sent in 4.83Seconds 191.41Kbytes/sec.
ftp>`

Here, the 'prestige.bin' is the local file and 'ras' is the remote file that will be saved in the Prestige.

The Prestige reboots automatically after the uploading is finished.

2. Using FTP client software

Step 1 | Rename the local firmware and configuration files to 'ras' and 'rom-0', because we can not specify the remote file name in the FTP client software.
Step 2 | Use FTP client from your workstation to connect to the Prestige by entering the IP address of the Prestige.
Step 3 | Enter the SMT password as the FTP login password. The default is '1234'.
Step 4 | Press 'OK' key to ignore the username, because the Prestige does not check the username.

Example:

1. Connect to the Prestige by entering the Prestige's IP and SMT password in the FTP software. Set the transfer type to 'Auto-Detect' or 'Binary'.

2. Press 'OK' to ignore the 'Username' prompt.

3. To upload the firmware file, we transfer the local 'ras' file to overwrite the remote 'ras' file.
To upload the configuration file, we transfer the local 'rom-0' to overwrite the remote 'rom-0' file.

4.The Prestige reboots automatically after the uploading is finished. Please do not power off the router at this moment.

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