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Upgrading Tripplite PDU firmware

One of my clients uses Tripp Lite  PDUMH20AT power distribution units. They are rather primitive, and upgrading firmware on the management cards is done via ftp; you start an ftp session, upload the firmware image and the device reboots when you quit.

I recently ran into problems with the ftp sessions – I could connect OK, but any attempt to transfer files would fail.

It turns out the ftp server on the devices can't do passive ftp, only active. The fix is simple – issue the "passive" command before uploading the firmware image. Of course, this means it won't work very well through a firewall/NAT router, but that's not a problem as I do the upgrades from a local machine.

The full session looks something like this:

[root@a001 Files4step2]# ftp 8.pdu.aConnected to 8.pdu.a (192.168.254.138).220 NET+ARM FTP Server 1.0 ready.Name (8.pdu.a:root): admin331 User admin OK, send password.Password:230 Password OK.Remote system type is NET+ARM.ftp> bin200 Type set to I.ftp> passivePassive mode off.ftp> put rom.binlocal: rom.bin remote: rom.bin200 PORT command Ok.150 About to open data connection.226 Transfer complete2109474 bytes sent in 2.35 secs (8.8e+02 Kbytes/sec)ftp> put pwralert.datlocal: pwralert.dat remote: pwralert.dat200 PORT command Ok.150 About to open data connection.226 Transfer complete679080 bytes sent in 0.793 secs (8.4e+02 Kbytes/sec)ftp> bye221 Goodbye.
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