Questions tagged [tftp]
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Centos 6/7 tftp server does not send reply
I am attempting to get a really simple TFTP server up and running for the purpose of working as an IPXE boot server.
However everything I seem to do doesn't seem to work to get the server to be able to communicate with a remote client. I can get…

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Can't backup Cisco configuration with tftp
I get the following error:
SW-AL710-1#copy running-config tftp:
Address or name of remote host []? 10.0.1.130
Destination filename [sw-al710-1-confg]?
%Error opening tftp://10.0.1.130/sw-al710-1-confg (Timed out)
This is my configuration:
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TFTP: transfer time out on RHEL 6 server
I am hitting a wall here trying to get tftp to work using RHEL 6 as a server. The error, from the client, is simply "transfer timed out". On the server, I can see udp 69 traffic coming in from my client but I do not see any packets returning to the…

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Linux: tftp not working, transfer timed out, what could be the reason?
I have a server which runs cobbler and tftp server.
My task is to configure a read-write tftp server.
tftp is configured through xinetd and the configuration file looks like so:
service tftp
{
disable = no
socket_type…

Itai Ganot
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PXE boot kernel panic
I am having trouble setting up a PXE boot server. I've got isc-dhcp-server running, tftp-hpa serves the files over tftp (verified works), and apache2 hosts the rootfs image. The PXE client seems to download the kernel and initrd files correctly,…

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Error loading my BCD when trying to PXE boot to Windows PE
I'm trying to set up an ubuntu server with pxelinux, so I can boot Windows PE using PXE. On the client machine, I can see that pxelinux itself works, but the next screen is this:
Here is what I did:
Step 1: Installed tftpd-hpa and dhcp3 on the…

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Windows 7 Requires ARP for UDP?
Seems like my Windows 7 box (with 2 NICs if that's relevant) requires an ARP response before it sends packets to a certain IP address. The specific context I'm in is running a TFTP server (TFTPD32). The server hears the request, sends out an ARP…

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TFTP server for MAC OS X
does anyone know any TFTP server for Mac OS X? maybe there is one build-in?

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TFTP Timing Out on Ubuntu VM
I'm running a Windows 7 PC with VMware installed which has my Ubuntu (10.04 Lucid Lynx).
I recently installed a DHCP server and TFTP (Xinet tftpd) using these instructions. I've mapped a network drive so that my Windows has access to all the files…

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Is there a match on incoming interface in DHCPd classes?
(Note, the title of the question Is there a way to classify DHCP requests based on the interface they're coming from? is what I want answered, but it doesn't actually ask that question for a non-dhcp relay situation, and the answer doesn't help here…

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tftp server configuration under ubuntu, Access violation
Here is my configuration:
$ vi /etc/xined.d/tftpd
service tftp
{
protocol = udp
port = 69
socket_type = dgram
wait = yes
user = nobody
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args =…

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Easily obtain list of sessions from Juniper Netscreen
I've got a Juniper Netscreen SSG-5 that occasionally gets a high session count. I've got 4096 licensed sessions, and there are times I see 3000+ for a small office (a dozen or so people). This is higher than I would like, and it makes me a bit more…

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ubuntu tftpd-hpa server times out
i'm trying to deploy a TFTP server on an Ubuntu machine to backup switche and router config, but i keep getting a timeout even thought i can see tftp traffic coming in.
i have looked around, many people had this problem but none of the answers…

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Is there a way to relate the mac address of a machine to it's hostname when deploying images over a network?
This is a os-agnostic question; When deploying to a large number of machines, the only thing you have to differentiate them with is a mac address; DHCP can assign an IP to each machine based on it's mac address, and then DNS will assign it a FQDN…

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pxe and dhcp on dfferent subnets
Good Day
Please help , i have a dhcp on 192.168.21.0/24 and pxe server on 192.168.1.0/24. Now i want to install hosts in 192.168.21.0/24 using this pxe tftp netboot on 192.168.1.0/24. My hosts in 192.168.21.0/24 are getting IP fine then trying tftp…

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