RE: OT - How do you download a 34 MB image in rommon mode?

From: de Witt, Duane (duane.dewitt@siemens.com)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2006 - 14:47:14 GMT-3


I have recently used TFTP for a 48Mb Cat6500 image. Perhaps some vendors deviate from the spec.

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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Jarod Ahlgren
Sent: 22 March 2006 07:32 PM
To: Victor Cappuccio
Cc: CCIEin2006; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: OT - How do you download a 34 MB image in rommon mode?

I believe TFTP has a limit of 32MB, per the spec.....

On 3/22/06, Victor Cappuccio <cvictor@protokolgroup.com> wrote:
>
> You can maybe change the console speed to 115200 and try xmodem with -y
> option
> Or Try uploading a small image and then copy the big image via FTP
> HTH
> Victor.
>
>
> CCIEin2006 escribis:
> > Hey group,
> >
> > I have a Cisco 3845 and the IOS image in flash is either corrupted or
> has a
> > bug so the router is contiuosly reloading itself.
> > I tried downloading a new image using TFTP in rommon mode but
> unfortuantely
> > it keeps timing out. For some reason TFTP cannot handle large file
> > transfers.
> >
> > Is there another way I can download a new image? Right now I am using
> XMODEM
> > and its probably going to take 13 hours to finish.
> >
> > Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
> >
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