Cabletron Systems CyberSWITCH CSX150 User Manual

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Small Office Remote Access Switch 331C ONFIGURING O THER ADVANCED O PTIONSTFTPTFTP CONFIGURATION E LEMENTSO PERATIONAL S TATUS OF TFTP F EATUREYou can enable or disable the TFTP feature.O PERATIONAL S TATUS OF TFTP C LIENTYou can enable or disable the TFTP client feature. The TFTP client functions are achieved throughadministration console commands.O PERATIONAL S TATUS OF TFTP S ERVERYou can enable or disable the TFTP server feature. The TFTP Server function is invoked remotelyfrom a TFTP host device connected to either a LAN or WAN network interface.F ILE A CCESS R IGHTS FOR THE TFTP S ERVERThe file access rights associated with the configured device Id that are applied to all file accesses bythe remote host.TFTP BACKGROUND I NFORMATIONThe TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) feature provides the ability through the TFTP Server, toupload and download configuration, report, statistics, and other system files to or from a remotesystem. The TFTP feature also provides the capability from the console for the device to send andreceive the same file types through the TFTP Client function.The TFTP feature will provide controlled read (download) and write (upload) access by remotesystems to configuration, report, statistics, and other system files on target systems through theTFTP Server. The system will also have the ability to upload and download these file types to orfrom target remote systems through a console invoked TFTP Client function.Access to files on an system will be controlled by configuration through Manage Mode. File accessattributes are associated with the existing system device id’s (GUEST and ADMIN) to allowconfiguration of file access rights.Configuration of the TFTP feature through Manage Mode allows the administrator to restrictupload and download access for each particular file type. The administrator can also disable theentire feature or a portion of the feature through Manage Mode.The system provides both a TFTP client and a TFTP Server function. The TFTP Client is invokedvia system commands from an administration session on the system console. The TFTP client usesthe file access attributes of the currently logged in device id, either GUEST or ADMIN.The TFTP Server function is invoked remotely from a TFTP host device connected to either a LANor WAN network interface. The administrator sets the file access attributes for the TFTP Serverfunction by associating an system device ID (GUEST or ADMIN) with the TFTP Server function.Whenever a remote host invokes the TFTP Server function in the system, the file access rightsassociated with the configured device ID are applied to all file accesses by the remote host.Each device has pre-assigned configurable access rights to the TFTP permissible file types. Theaccess rights are configurable using thefileattr change Manage Mode command. Refer to FileAttributes for more information regarding configuring the file attributes.