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Date:      Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:56:34 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jean-Christophe Varaillon <jcv@vbc.net>
To:        "Andy [TECC NOPS]" <andy@tecc.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: - TFTP: Time out -
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10103061653001.56357-100000@brunel.uk1.vbc.net>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBKOKIGKLFGGPFHCGBCEAGCLAA.andy@tecc.co.uk>

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On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Andy [TECC NOPS] wrote:

> OK, from that all seems fine. But remeber
> that doing %tftp localhost and then trying
> a local get failed, so I suspect that there
> is something wrong with the local setup somewhere.
> 
> Right, how come you have two lines beginning "tftp"
> in your /etc/inetd.conf ?? Thought there should be
> only one (the one ending -s /tftpboot).

I uncommented the first line and I add another line to allow also an tftp
access to /usr/home/jcv. 

> Big point here is that inetd is invoked -wW so it's
> wrapping. Check /etc/hosts.allow (or is it 
> /usr/local/etc/hosts.allow
> these days? dunno, check up on it).
> Do a man inetd and check this yourself.

-wW turn on TCP Wrapping.
By "vi /etc/inted.conf" we can see that tftp is using UDP

wrapping is used in a matter of security, no ?
If yes, my router is , for the moment just close to my desk an it is not a
remote router.

> Try doing %telnet localhost 69 and see if your
> daemon will even allow a connection. 

Even as a super user, the daemon does not allow the connection.
---
%telnet localhost 69
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
%
---
> If none of these we'll try again
> 
> Regards
> Andy
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jean-Christophe
> > Varaillon
> > Sent: 06 March 2001 16:37
> > To: Andy [TECC NOPS]
> > Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: RE: - TFTP: Time out -
> > 
> > 
> > It is still not working between my machine and the cisco #( 
> > 
> > So, let summurize what I should fixe:
> > 
> > === Make my FreeBSD machine as a tftp server ===
> > 
> > vi /etc/inetd.conf:
> > --
> > tftp dgram udp  wait root /usr/libexec/tftpd  tftpd -l -s /tftpboot
> > tftp dgram udp  wait root /usr/libexec/tftpd  tftpd -l -s /usr/home/jcv
> > --
> > 
> > --
> > homer# ps auwx | grep inetd
> > root   108  0.0  0.5  1044  604  ??  Is   27Feb01   0:00.19 inetd -wW
> > jcv  23629  0.0  0.9  1548 1136  pc  I+    4:15PM   0:00.02 vi
> > /etc/inetd.conf
> > homer# kill -HUP 108
> > --
> > 
> > I can see that the server is actually listening:
> > --
> > %netstat -a | grep tftp
> > udp4       0      0  *.tftp                 *.*
> > %
> > --
> > 
> > ===== TFTP LOCALHOST TEST =====
> > %su
> > Password:
> > 
> > homer# cd /tftpboot
> > homer# ls -l
> > total 8544
> > -rw-r--r--  1 nobody  nobody  4991380 Mar  6 15:39
> > c3640-i-mz.120-7.XK1.bin
> > -rw-r--r--  1 nobody  nobody  3731009 Mar  6 15:03 c3640-i-mz.120-9.bin
> > 
> > homer# cd /usr/home/jcv
> > homer# ls -l c3640-i-mz.120-9.bin
> > -rw-r--r--  1 nobody  nobody  0 Mar  6 16:03 c3640-i-mz.120-9.bin
> > homer# tftp 127.0.0.1
> > 
> > tftp> status
> > Connected to 127.0.0.1.
> > Mode: netascii Verbose: off Tracing: off
> > Rexmt-interval: 5 seconds, Max-timeout: 25 seconds
> > tftp> get /tftpboot/c3640-i-mz.120-9.bin
> > Transfer timed out.
> > 
> > tftp> quit
> > 
> > homer#vi /var/log/messages
> > ...
> > Mar  6 16:29:03 homer tftpd[23756]: read: Connection refused
> > Mar  6 16:29:08 homer tftpd[23758]: read: Connection refused
> > 
> > =================================
> > 
> > Oh by the way, when you make your IOS upgrade form your tftp server to
> > your router, you don't have to creat a blank file in flash ?
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Jean-Christophe.
> > 
> > 
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