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a_basharat_2591
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Jun 28, 2016

Upgrade IOS on a physical F5

Hi,   I'd like to upgrade the IOS of a physical F5 [5050]. The IOS weight is aprox 2Gig and it is hosted in my Computer.   The F5 has got 3 interfaces connected now: Management port, 1.1 [inter...
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Hannes_Rapp
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Jun 28, 2016

Assuming you have a Windows PC with full version of Putty, try the pscp command line utility. Alternatively, you can install the WinSCP program which can do the same. If there's WAN between your PC and the remote BigIP, it's normal if the transfer takes an hour or more, then the transfer speed really depends on your ISP bandwidth allocation on both ends, and the latency.

Putty SCP (specify correct source path, and replace 192.168.255.131 with your BigIP mgmt IP):

pscp Desktop\BigIP-img.iso root@192.168.255.131:/shared/images/