FTP Commands

How to connect:

For example, you are through a telnet session connected to a server and you need to get or put files to this server. You will need to open on your PC (where you created the telnet session) a FTP Server (Mozilla is a good option). After you run Mozilla and configure a username/password and root folder (this can be seen in the video on how to upgrade a Switch) you must go to the telnet session and go to the folder you want to put/get the file and write

# ftp a.b.c.d (is the ip address where the FTP server is running)

then it will ask for username and password you added in the Mozilla server.

Then enter Binary to make the download as a Binary file.

Then with the "ls" commando you will be able to navigate to the folder you want in the server PC.

with pwd you can know in which folder you are downloading the file

When you go to that folder you will be able to do a PUT (to put a file in the server) or GET (to get a file from the server to the folder you navigate in the telnet session when you started the FTP session).

Try always to write binary to change the transfer to this option. In this option the FTP will transfer bit by bit. In ASCII it will transfer ASCII code that can change depending on the UTF format.

The commands are:
get README.txt
put README.txt