[c-nsp] TFTP File over 40MB on SUP720

[Robert Holtz]

Switch to FTP.  The newer gear supports this.  I was having trouble with
files > 64MB and this got me around the problem.

On 5/31/06, Gabriel Graven <gabe at maxistech.net> wrote:
>
> Morning group.
>
> I am having trouble doing a tftp transfer on a SUP720.  I have had no
> trouble in the past although I am using CATOS currently and want to move the
> Native IOS for the SUP720.  The TFTP transfer starts normally but will crash
> and restart after a transfer of about 40MB.  I thought it might be my tftp
> software so I switched to another with the same results.
>
> really has me stumped.  I even tried using a CISCO 3745 to tftp that large
> 44Mb file onto the external flash card, so I could just boot from the
> external slot on the SUP720.  But even in the 3745 I encountered the same
> results.  The transfer starts normally but will continue to crash and
> restart the transfer.  The funny thing is the TFTP process is never
> halted.  The Router or Switch continues transferring as normal just keeps on
> scrolling the exclamation points, although the tftp software registers an
> error and you can visually see it number of bytes reset and
> continue.  Virtually endless loop of tftp transferring.
>
> I only seem to have this problem on the new SUP720 files over 40 MB.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> ==========================================================
> Gabriel Graven
> Maxis Technologies, Inc
> 433 W. Wilshire Blvd. Ste 2B
> Oklahoma City, OK  73116
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