H3C Technologies H3C SecPath F1000-E - Manual (Page 136)

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Maintaining and Debugging an FTP Connection
After a device serving as the FTP client has established a connection with the FTP server (For how to
establish an FTP connection, refer to Establishing an FTP Connection .), you can perform the following
operations to locate and diagnose problems encountered in an FTP connection:
To do… Use the command… Remarks
Display the help information of
FTP-related commands supported by the
remote FTP server
remotehelp [ protocol-command ] Optional
Enable information display in a detailed
manner
verbose
Optional
Enabled by default
Enable FTP related debugging when the
device acts as the FTP client
debugging
Optional
Disabled by default
Terminating an FTP Connection
After the device serving as the FTP client has established a connection with the FTP server (For how to
establish an FTP connection, refer to
Establishing an FTP Connection .), you can use any of the following
commands to terminate an FTP connection:
To do… Use the command… Remarks
Terminate the connection to the FTP server
without exiting FTP client view
disconnect
Optional
Equal to the close command.
Terminate the connection to the FTP server
without exiting FTP client view
close
Optional
Equal to the disconnect
command.
Terminate the connection to the FTP server
and return to user view
bye Optional
Terminate the connection to the FTP server
and return to user view
quit
Optional
Available in FTP client view,
equal to the bye command.
FTP Client Configuration Example
Network requirements
• As shown in Figure 2 , use Device as an FTP client and PC as the FTP server. Their IP addresses are
10.2.1.1/16 and 10.1.1.1/16 respectively. Device and PC are reachable to each other.
• Device downloads a startup file from PC for device upgrade, and uploads the configuration file to
PC for backup.
• On PC, an FTP user account has been created for the FTP client, with the username being abc and
the password being pwd.