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| Resolving Cisco Router/Switch Tftp Problems: Source IP Address - The 'IP TFTP Source-Interface' Command |
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| Written by Administrator |
| Monday, 16 July 2012 02:28 |
When working with Cisco equipment that has multiple ip interfaces, a common problem engineers are faced with is trying to successfully tftp to or from the Cisco device. This issue is usually encountered when the Cisco device (router or multi-layer switch) uses a different source IP address which cannot reach our TFTP Server's IP address or is blocked due to access lists. Luckily, there is a way around this problem, and it’s a simple one. To ensure your Cisco router or multi-layer switch uses the correct interface during any tftp session, use the ip tftp source-interface command to specify the source-interface that will be used by the device. The following example instructs our Cisco 3750 Layer 3 switch to use VLAN 5 interface as the source ip interface for all tftp sessions: 3750G-Stack(config)# ip tftp source-interface vlan 5
As shown below, VLAN 5 has IP address 192.168.131.1 assigned to it, therefore this IP address will be the source interface from now on: 3750G-Stack# show ip interface brief
Interface IP-Address OK? Method Status Protocol Vlan1 192.168.50.1 YES NVRAM up up Vlan2 192.168.130.1 YES NVRAM up up Vlan3 192.168.135.1 YES NVRAM up up Vlan4 192.168.19.1 YES NVRAM up up Vlan5 192.168.131.1 YES NVRAM up up Vlan6 192.168.141.1 YES NVRAM up up Vlan7 192.168.170.1 YES NVRAM up up Vlan8 192.168.180.1 YES NVRAM up up Related Articles |
| Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:20 |
