- Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch Owner's Manual

230 System conﬁguration using the CLI

CAUTION

Do not interrupt power to the device during the software download

process. A power interruption can corrupt the ﬁrmware image.

This section contains information about the following:

•

"download command" (page 230)

download command

The download command upgrades the software for the Ethernet Routing

Switch 2500 Series. You can upgrade both the software image and the

diagnostics image.

ATTENTION

The system resets after downloading a new image.

The syntax for the download command is:

download [address <ip>] {image <image-name>|image-if-newer

<image-name>|diag <filename> [no-reset] | poe-module-image }

The download command is executed in the Privileged EXEC command

mode.

ATTENTION

You can use the download command without parameters. The system displays

the most recently used TFTP server IP address and ﬁle name; if you still want to

use these, press Enter. You can also change these.

Table 90 "download command parameters and variables" (page

230) describes the parameters and variables for the download command.

Table 90

download command parameters and variables

Parameters and

variables

Description

address <ip>

Specifies the IP address of the TFTP server you want to

use.

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 Series

Overview — System Conﬁguration

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