HOW TO UPDATE A CISCO 2950 SWITCH TO THE LATEST FIRMWARE RELEASE

HOW TO UPDATE A CISCO 2950 SWITCH TO THE LATEST FIRMWARE RELEASE




This uses the latest Crypto Firmware version for Cisco so that you can enable SSH which is not available on the non-crypto build. This makes for better security.




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copy run tftp
copy flash:c2950-i6q4l2-mz.121-22.EA1b.bin tftp

dir flash:
delete flash:<name of current *.bin>
dir flash:
dir html
delete flash:html/*
dir flash:
archive tar /xtract tftp://172.17.6.32/c2950-i6k2l2q4-tar.121-22.EA14.tar flash:
verify flash:c2950-i6k2l2q4-mz.121-22.EA14.bin
dir flash:
config t
boot system flash:c2950-i6k2l2q4-mz.121-22.EA14.bin
sh boot
end
sh boot
wr mem
reload
sh ver