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Asked: 2012-10-16 11:32:29 +0800 CST

How do I install and run a TFTP server?

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I have an embedded VxWorks target that needs to boot its kernel from my Ubuntu computer. How do I install and run a TFTP server?

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  1. Best Answer

    TFTP Server Install and Setup

    1. Install following packages.

      sudo apt-get install xinetd tftpd tftp

    2. Create /etc/xinetd.d/tftp and put this entry

      service tftp
{
protocol        = udp
port            = 69
socket_type     = dgram
wait            = yes
user            = nobody
server          = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args     = /tftpboot
disable         = no
}

    3. Create a folder /tftpboot this should match whatever you gave in server_args. mostly it will be tftpboot

      sudo mkdir /tftpboot
sudo chmod -R 777 /tftpboot
sudo chown -R nobody /tftpboot

    4. Restart the xinetd service.

      newer systems:

      sudo service xinetd restart

      older systems:

      sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd restart

    Now our tftp server is up and running.

    Testing our tftp server

    1. Create a file named test with some content in /tftpboot path of the tftp server

      Obtain the ip address of the tftp server using ifconfig command

    2. Now in some other system follow the following steps.

      tftp 192.168.1.2
tftp> get test
Sent 159 bytes in 0.0 seconds

tftp> quit

cat test

    Source: http://mohammadthalif.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/installing-and-testing-tftpd-in-ubuntudebian/

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  2. You can install atftpd and it will create a directory called /tftpboot in which you may place your files. Put especially the pxelinux.0 file there. Any future configuration will be addressed if it is necessary.

    When you install the package with 

    sudo apt-get install atftpd

    it will use Debconf to prompt you for some choices. You can set many choices(server timeout may be useful), especially the basepath. You can also adjust the multicast range.

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  3. You can install tftpd-hpa and change the configurations . Steps for installing tftpd-hpa is explained in this blog post.

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