OT: tftp server

[Brooks Davis]

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

-- 
Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529  9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/attachments/20040224/229a409a/attachment.bin