1. On windows PC go to the command prompt (Start/ Run / cmd [ENTER]) 2. On the command line type ftp x.x.x.x [enter] (x.x.x.x is the IP address of your switch) 3. You should now get the prompt to enter username….enter your username 4. You should now get the prompt to enter password…enter your password 5. if logged in you should now type get boot.cfg c:\boot.cfg 6. you should now see something like x bytes transferred succesfully or soething similar 7. type bye to finish the ftp session. 8 You should now have a copy of the boot.cfg file on the root of your c:\ drive on the pc you are using.

Note when you enter via ftp, you go straight into the working directory hence why you can issue get boot.cfg.

Hope this helps you out.

Good luck

PS to put a config file back onto the switch use FTP again as follows:

1. On windows PC go to the command prompt (Start/ Run / cmd [ENTER]) 2. On the command line type ftp x.x.x.x [enter] (x.x.x.x is the IP address of your switch) 3. You should now get the prompt to enter username….enter your username 4. You should now get the prompt to enter password…enter your password 5. if logged in you should now type put c:\boot.cfg boot.cfg 6. you should now see something like x bytes transferred succesfully or soething similar 7. type bye to finish the ftp session. 8. Now telnet to the switch from the command prompt telnet x.x.x.x [enter] (x.x.x.x is the IP address of your switch) 9. You should now get the prompt to enter username….enter your username 10. You should now get the prompt to enter password…enter your password 11. now issue the copy working certified command 12. now reboot the switch with the new config by using the reload all command. 13 The switch will now reboot using the new config file.

Good Luck