How to view or retrieve 'autosupout.rif' file without networking?

[JimGrisham]

You can use /tool fetch to download the file from the router itself using the loopback address and specify the USB or SD card as a destination:

/tool fetch url=“ftp://127.0.0.1/autosupout.rif” user=abc password=def output=file dst-path=disk1/some-new-name.rif

Of course provided that user abc is allowed to fetch files using FTP, ftp is permitted under /ip services, and the firewall allows loopback connections to the FTP port.

Thanks, sindy! That’s a really good tip, and hopefully may be of help to others.

As it turns out, I saw that suggested elsewhere as a general workaround to the lack of a file-copy command.

Unfortunately, in my specific case it stalls.

Per my wacky theory, ftp to localhost/loopback (127.0.0.1) also fails since part/all of the networking stack is offline, and ultimately anything with IP addresses that is associated with an interface (via a default route in case of the loopback address?) seems to stall out the console.

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It’s a long shot, but I guess I could see if the /tool fetch url command respects something like file:// urls…

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→ I’m wondering if there might not be some rare issue with corruption in the v6.48.1 release (maybe plus/minus some unknown number of builds), maybe in combination with the drivers / kernel extensions for certain architectures and/or specific switch chipsets.

See this reply to “v6.48.1 [stable] is released!”. (There’s also the very next reply in the same thread, but that could have many causes.)