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| I can understand how the IOS is located in either NVRAM or Flash, but why would it be also located in the TFTP server? From what I understand, the TFTP is a striped down version of FTP, and is primarily concerned with file transfers.
Tks
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| It's a file transfer of you're IOS. This is a common way for dumb devices such as terminal servers to boot. Cisco's IP phones tftp their load upon starting, too.
Storing the image on a tftp server is an easy way to centrally manage your IOS. Perhaps the best reason is as a backup. Have the router try to boot off of flash first, but if the flash tanks it can try to boot off the tftp server.
MadChef
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| Hi MadChef;
Thanks for the quick response. I understand what your saying. Is the IOS being on the tftp server what is meant by the IOS being network loaded?
JerryL | |
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