Re: BCS Nortel switch firmware upgrade

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Lukas Beeler
<lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

as part of the seemingly never ending process of getting my BCS JS12
working ( VIOS has gone casters up on me twice now after i5/OS is
loaded ), I am working on loading the lastest firmware and VIOS
upgrades on the BCS.

What are you doing to that poor Blade? ;)

I dunno. All I want to do is program the thing. I feel like I am in admin hell.

For the Nortel switch firmware update I have to establish an SFTP
server on my Windows PC. IBM support says I need the SFTP server, but
IBM does not supply one.

Quick Google Search says you'll need TFTP or FTP, not SFTP. SFTP is
based on SSH. AIX includes scp/sftp clients and servers.

According to:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/system_x/nt_fw_bcsw_l23-1.5.1.0_anyos_noarch.txt

You'll need an FTP or a TFTP Server to upgrade the Switch.

I've always used the Cisco TFTP Server:
http://www.oldversion.com/download.php?idlong=cc3e5762999b51f638edae64e948bbfc

But there are better alternatives:
http://tftpd32.jounin.net/

ah Cisco, that must be safe. I worry that installing free code from
the web will give the Russian Mobsters/KGB a vector into my country.
;)

thanks,