Any plans to upgrade the tftp client and server images for FreeBSD?

[Rui Paulo]

hi,

On 31 Dec 2009, at 04:46, Patrick Mahan wrote:

> Not sure if this is the correct list, but I am working as part of
> a kernel team that is using FreeBSD 8.0 for it's base OS.
> 
> We have had a ongoing issue with our bootloader (u-boot) with it
> being unable to tftp from the tftp server running on our FreeBSD
> server.  We traced the issue down to the tftp code in u-boot was
> using the 'blksize' option and was not handling the option nak
> correctly.  Since we didn't want to have to require a change in
> the bootloader, it was instead decided to fix the tftp server to
> support RFC 2348.  After looking around the internet, we found that
> the tftp server under NetBSD did support RFC 2348.  This made it
> an easy port, one line change to the usr.bin/tftp/Makefile and a
> slight change to libexec/tftpd.c (changed the name of an internal
> function from 'sendfile' back to 'xmitfile').  It has been working
> just fine for us.
> 
> So I have been tasked with asking if the FreeBSD developers would
> like this code for future inclusion (or one of the current developers
> could just grab it from NetBSD).

Yes.

> 
> Reading the website it seems to contribute we need to be running -CURRENT
> which is not currently possible (other reasons we are using 8.0.  This
> is actually a recent upgrade as we were previously using FreeBSD 6.2).
> 
> So if this is something that could be useful, I have the code and a patch
> to modify the original NetBSD code to contribute.
> 
> Also, if it is already done, then I was not able to view it (I tried the CVS and
> SVN web source browser and did not see any changes related to adding RFC 2348
> support.

The tftp server on 8.0 is the same as on 9.0. Can you send a patch?

Thanks,
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Rui Paulo