Error while trying to copy Switch configuration into the PC

[hamidul.islam]

Hi there,

I was trying to copy the cisco startup image into my pc using tftp command. We have cisco  3750 switch stack.

My pc ip address is 10.X.X.X and subnet 255.255.255.0

My pc is connected with the switch port and the switch loopback inteface begins with 170.X.X.X

I installed the Solarwind TFTP server at my machine.

I gave the following command to copy the Startup Configurations and getting the error:

copy system:running-config tftp

Address or name of remote host []? 10.30.94.163

Destination filename [ca-mis-lts-01-confg]?

.....

%Error opening tftp://10.30.94.163/ca-mis-lts-01-confg (Timed out)

Please advice to solve the issue.

Thanks

Hamid

[Jon Marshall]

Hamid

Can you ping the PC from the switch ?

You switch needs to be able to ping the 10.30.94.163 address. If it can't then tftp won't work.

You say your switch has a loopback of 170.x.x.x but it must have at least one L3 vlan interface up and running ?

Jon

[hamidul.islam]

Hi Jon

Thanks for the quick reply.

Yes.  the ping works in both way that is switch to PC and PC to switch.

My pc is in vlan 20. The VLAN 20  ip address 10.30.94.1 255.255.255.0 and that is up and running.

And my pc ip address is 10.30.94.163.

One more thing,earlier I telnet the switch using the loop back interface (170.X.X.X) and now I telnet the swith using the VLAN 20 ip address and getting the same error.

What should I do next?

[hamidul.islam]

Is the problem related to security setting in my pc? Please advice some possible solution.

Thanks

[milan.kulik]

Hi,

it might be either personal FW running on your PC and blocking TFTP or the TFTP server trying to save the file to a non-existing directory or directory which the user running the TFTP application has not sufficient rights.

BR,

Milan

[letsgomets]

Do you see an attempted connection on the TFTP server console?

If not then you could have an OS firewall blocking the transfer.

Ed

[hamidul.islam]

Hi,

It seems that firewall is blocking the tftp port. I can't modify the XP firewall as it is disabled from any change.

Can you suggest me if Security settings in XP can be changed to enable the firewall settings? Or any other option to enable the TFTP port in XP?

thanks

[letsgomets · Accepted solution]

It sounds like you have a group policy applied to the PC that is prohibiting you from modifying the XP firewall feature.

If that is the case you need to engage an administrator of that PC to disable the firewall temporarily while you tftp the file down.

[hamidul.islam]

Thanks a lot to everyone.

That problem was due to firewall setting.

I disabled the firewall and was able to copy the startup configurations.

Thnaks once again.