[CentOS] tftp times out

Wed Jan 3 18:09:58 UTC 2007
Marc Wiatrowski <wia at iglass.net>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Snyder
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 2:32 PM
> Subject: [CentOS] tftp times out
> 
> 
> tftp keeps timing out when I try to transfer files.  I intend to use tftp with G4U to clone 
> a standard workstation. I am testing it between two Dell poweredge servers running CentOS 
> 4.3.  "chkconfig --list |grep tftp" shows tftp up and running on both boxes. When connected 
> "tftp>status" shows it is talking to the other box
> "tptp>trace" shows  "sent WRQ <file=slavelit, mode=netascii>" 
> and ends with Transfer timed out.
> 
> I have tftp is being run under xinetd.
> 
> I have modified /etc/xinetd.d/tftpd as follows:
> 
> server_args       -p -c -U 002 -u install -s /tster
> 
> I have setup a user install, set read/write privileges on 
> /tster which is owned by install
> 
> Not sure what else I need to do to get this working, any 
> suggestions would be appreciated
> 

I had problems with the tftp-server (BSDish tftp-hpa) that ships with 
redhat, especially with large files.  Ended up going with atftpd instead

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/atftp/

and everything started to work.

marc