IDS 4235 FTP is not working, getting error

[BRANDON BAILEY]

I purchased a user cisco 4235 and plan to upgrade it to 6.x. When I initially attempted to upgrate VIA FTP I got an error because I cannot upgrade from 4.x to 6.x. I attempted to upgrade it to 5.x and I received an error message stating "Unknown FTP error" from the console. I don't receive this message when I ssh into the box. I also get this error message whn I try to "copy current-config ftp://" so it not just a upgrade issue it seems to be a FTP issue. The FTP server I am using is Filezilla installed on a windown XP machine. The windows firewall is disabaled at the time of connection. Judging by the logs I can tell it connects to the FTP server and authenticates but does not transfer anything, it just times out.  I have attached the logs from filezilla and the running config form the IPS.

[sawgupta]

Could you try upgrading via other means ? such as scp instead of ftp ?

Regards,

Sawan Gupta

[BRANDON BAILEY]

Thank you for the response!

As described, I have attempted to upgrade using FTP but I have not tried SCP because I have not found any tools. Do you happen to know of any good SCP tools?

[sawgupta]

Well, if there is a linux box in your network you can use the following command

(config)# upgrade scp:// 

User:  

User:  

User: abc 

Server's IP Address: 1.1.1.1 

Port[22]:  

File name: filepath 

Password:

Or use HTTP protocol, if you have any webserver.

Regards,

Sawan Gupta