Upgrade cisco catalyst 2960 series switch

Upgrade through webinterface doesn’t work well on those switches i think, so doing the upgrade through ios console is usually faster.

  1. Download the tar u want to upgrade to from cisco.com (login needed)
  2. Place the tar reachable for the tftp server (use jounin tftp server if u don’t have any other prefered one, http://tftpd32.jounin.net/tftpd32_download.html)
  3. Make sure firewall on your tftp machine/server is open for tftp or disabled
  4. Login to te switch ios console via serial/telnet/ssh
  5. IOS command: archive download-sw /overwrite /reload tftp://tftpserver_IP/c2960-lanbasek9-tar.150-2.SE4.tar
  6. Wait for the tftp download and the upgrade to finish, the switch will reboot

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