"Not every router can act as a TFTP server"

CriscoSystems · ‎02-02-2009

Is there any truth to this claim?

Specifically we're talking about a 2501 whose show version output appears below.

The eBay seller claims "I have always used tftp to push from the routers out not in the conf t mode because not all routers support being a tftp-server"

I think that's probably bs; when we're talking about a 2501 running IOS 12.3.

Router>sh ver

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

IOS (tm) 2500 Software (C2500-IS-L), Version 12.3(24), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc4)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Compiled Thu 18-Oct-07 13:41 by stshen

Image text-base: 0x0307E1D8, data-base: 0x00001000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 11.0(10c), SOFTWARE

BOOTLDR: 3000 Bootstrap Software (IGS-BOOT-R), Version 11.0(10c), RELEASE SOFTW)

Router uptime is 1 hour, 31 minutes

System returned to ROM by power-on

System image file is "flash:c2500-is-l.123-24.bin"

cisco 2500 (68030) processor (revision N) with 14336K/2048K bytes of memory.

Processor board ID 06250764, with hardware revision 00000000

Bridging software.

X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.

1 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)

2 Serial network interface(s)

32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

16384K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)

Configuration register is 0x2102

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akemp · ‎02-03-2009

Wow 2501 EOL 2002, EOS 2007 .

2501 is also a different running model as its run from RAM, only loading those bits of code it needs from the FLASH.

CriscoSystems · ‎02-03-2009

I've read instead that on the 2500 series, IOS is both stored in, and executed from, Flash.

glen.grant · ‎02-03-2009

It should read any "modern" router can be a tftpserver . Even low end switches like a 2950 support that function . A 2500 is from the mid 1990's so its way out of date.

Leo Laohoo · ‎02-03-2009

Can you use the following command in global configuration mode:

tftp-server flash:

CriscoSystems · ‎02-06-2009

Yes, I have used it.

The available parameters are listed as

null:

nvram:

system:

"flash:" is, I think bizarrely, NOT an option. Whereas I can tftp-server any flash files with any of my _older_ IOS images.