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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:31:42 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Atuboyedia Christiana <atuboyedia_christiana@bah.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: enabling tftp port 69
Message-ID:  <20040812173142.GC4198@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <I2CFUG00.2BC@mclean-mail.usae.bah.com>
References:  <I2CFUG00.2BC@mclean-mail.usae.bah.com>

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In the last episode (Aug 12), Atuboyedia Christiana said:
> I have a question that needs to be answered very quickly.  I have
> enabled the use to tftp on my IBM T40 FreeBSD machine.  However, when
> I use nmap to look scan the ports and to tell me what ports are open,
> port 69 is not on that list.  However, I am able to tftp between two
> computers.  Can someone tell me what is going on here and what I can
> do to enable port 69?  Thank you.

tftp uses UDP sockets, and nmap does a TCP scan by default.  Use the
-sU flag will tell nmap to scan UDP ports.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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