OT: tftp server

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Tue Feb 24 09:21:52 PST 2004


On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:11:58PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Ganbold wrote:
> 
> > Maybe this is off topic question. I'm looking for good tftp server in
> > FreeBSD.  I used default tftp server in FreeBSD and had some problems.
> > It sometimes hangs without any response.  Can somebody recommend me tftp
> > server in FreeBSD/Unix/Linux? 
> 
> I can't recommend an alternative tftp server, but I can offer some help
> debugging the current one -- the tftp server is pretty widely used, and I
> haven't seen any other reports of this.  Could you expand a bit on "hangs
> without any response" -- do individual transfers stall, or the entire tftp
> server?  What flags are you using to tftpd in inetd.conf?  If you use a
> second client at the same time, does it also appear to be hung?  What
> clients are you using?

It's worth noting that ours works poorly with PXE clients.  The
ftp/tftp-hpa port is the one most commonly recommend for PXE
applications.

-- Brooks

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