From: Hansang Bae (hbae@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 16:40:28 GMT-3
At 01:24 PM 5/7/2002 -0500, Tony Russell wrote:
>Has anyone successfully accomplished this. I have several lab 2600 routers
>that all have 16MB or more of RAM but some only have 8MB of flash... I
>thought if I could get these routers to boot from tftp server instead of
>flash, I could run a version of IOS that wont fit in 8MB of flash. However,
>after setting up one router as a tftp server and using boot system tftp
>iosfilename in the config of the other routers, I keep getting a file read
>error.
>If I go to rmon and tftp from there, it works... What is the trick? Can I
>only tftp over a serial interface? I am trying to use the ethernets since
>all the routers are connected to the same switch? I also assumed (couldn't
>find documentation to suggest otherwise) that the tftp'd image would be
>loaded into RAM and used instead of copied to flash (in which case, my whole
>idea is shot). Some suggestions please.
I used to do it all the time before upgrading my flash. Some questions:
1) Which tftp server are you using?
2) Have you configured portfast (if applicable) on the switch ports?
3) What syntax did you use exactly?
hsb
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