H3C SR6608/6604 Routers Installation Manual
Chapter 7 Maintaining Software
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Updating Extend BootWare? [Y/N]
The system stops updating the basic segment and asks you whether to update the
extended segment or not.
2)
If you enter
Y
, the system updates the basic segment:
Updating Basic BootWare...............Done!
Updating Extend BootWare? [Y/N]Y
The basic segment is successfully updated and the system asks you whether to update
the extended segment:
z
If you enter
N
, the system stops updating the extended segment.
z
If you enter
Y
, the system continues to update the extended segment:
Updating Extend BootWare.................Done!
The extended segment is successfully updated.
By now, the entire BootWare has been updated successfully.
Note:
z
The BootWare program is updated together with the Comware application. You do
not need to update the BootWare separately. After the Comware is updated to the
latest version, the system automatically updates the BootWare program to the latest
version when the system reboots.
z
When FIP-100/FIP-200 is started up, it automatically checks the currently running
BootWare version. If the bound version is different from the current version, the
system updates the current BootWare version.
z
The file name, size and path in the above figures may vary. Check the current
BootWare and application versions before updating them.
7.4 Updating an Application Using TFTP
When the application file is large, you can update it using TFTP to save updating and
maintenance time.
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), a protocol in the TCP/IP protocol suite, is used for
trivial file transfer between client and server. It provides not-so-complex and low-cost
file transfer services. TFTP provides unreliable data transfer services over UDP and
does not provide any access authorization and authentication mechanism. It employs
timeout and retransmission to guarantee successful data delivery.
The device can serve as the TFTP client. The file server serves as the TFTP server.
You can upload/download the application file on the router to/from the file server.
There are two approaches to updating application files using TFTP: