Re: Indy tftp install problem
Steven Thomas wrote:
> This morning I
>
> 1) booted up 'chupacabras' (192.168.1.3), my dhcp and tftp server
> 2) echo'd the appropriate strings to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/<files> to obtain
> the cat's of my previous post
> 3) booted the Indy into maintenance
> 4) issued the command bootp():
>
> and obtained a different /var/log/daemon.log. This time, connections were
> repeatedly refused by tftpd:
>
> Jun 11 10:15:40 localhost in.tftpd[7744]: connect from ::ffff:192.168.1.197
> (::ffff:192.168.1.197)
> Jun 11 10:15:40 localhost tftpd[7745]: tftpd: trying to get file:
> /tftpboot/netboot-boot.img
> Jun 11 10:15:40 localhost tftpd[7745]: tftpd: read: Connection refused
>
> I thought I had this covered : /etc/hosts.allow contained ALL: ALL
> Getting bloody-minded, I deleted /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny to
> disable access control.
> Still 'bootp():' produced logs of 'read: Connection refused'.
>
> So I installed ethereal and sniffed the tftp request packet:
> Source 192.168.1.197
> Destination 192.168.1.3
> Protocol TFTP
>
> and saw [Malformed Packet: TFTP]
>
> Fed up with the terse logging of tftpd, I installed atftpd. After the
> successful DHCP exchange as before, this daemon logs:
> Jun 11 10:30:52 localhost atftpd[7832]: connect: Address family not
> supported by protocol
> Jun 11 10:31:21 localhost atftpd[7832]: connect: Address family not
> supported by protocol
> Jun 11 10:32:21 localhost last message repeated 2 times
> Jun 11 10:37:21 localhost atftpd[7832]: atftpd terminating after 300 seconds
> Jun 11 10:37:21 localhost atftpd[7832]: Main thread exiting
>
> Does this give anyone any insight ?
Yet another tftp server is tftpd-hpa, which is the only one I've ever
had luck with. The inetd line is
tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -u <user> /tftpboot
HTH,
Laurence
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