Re: BCS Nortel switch firmware upgrade

["Lukas Beeler" <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> as part of the seemingly never ending process of getting my BCS JS12
> working ( VIOS has gone casters up on me twice now after i5/OS is
> loaded ), I am working on loading the lastest firmware and VIOS
> upgrades on the BCS.

What are you doing to that poor Blade? ;)

> For the Nortel switch firmware update I have to establish an SFTP
> server on my Windows PC. IBM support says I need the SFTP server, but
> IBM does not supply one.

Quick Google Search says you'll need TFTP or FTP, not SFTP. SFTP is
based on SSH. AIX includes scp/sftp clients and servers.

According to:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/system_x/nt_fw_bcsw_l23-1.5.1.0_anyos_noarch.txt

You'll need an FTP or a TFTP Server to upgrade the Switch.

I've always used the Cisco TFTP Server:
http://www.oldversion.com/download.php?idlong=cc3e5762999b51f638edae64e948bbfc

But there are better alternatives:
http://tftpd32.jounin.net/