Re: PXES thin client as a TFTP Server

Hi Diego,

# cat /etc/inetd.conf
telnet  stream  tcp       nowait  root      /bin/telnetd telnetd -l /bin/login
http                stream  tcp       nowait  www.www  /bin/httpd httpd -h /usr/www/html -r "PXES Admin Authentication"
#netbios-ssn   stream  tcp       nowait  root           /sbin/smbd smbd
#netbios-ns     dgram   udp      wait      root          /sbin/nmbd nmbd
tftp                             dgram   udp      wait          root    /sbin/tftpd tftpd  -s /t
#ssh                          stream   tcp      nowait       root    /sbin/sshd sshd -i
~
 
 
# netstat -na
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address       Foreign Address      State
tcp             0          0  0.0.0.0:6000          0.0.0.0:*                 LISTEN
tcp             0          0  0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*                 LISTEN
tcp             0          0  0.0.0.0:23              0.0.0.0:*                 LISTEN
udp            0          0  0.0.0.0:69              0.0.0.0:*
Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established)
Proto RefCnt Flags       Type           State                I-Node  Path
unix   2         [ ACC ]    STREAM     LISTENING       1100    /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix   3         [ ]            STREAM     CONNECTED   1454    /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix   3         [ ]            STREAM     CONNECTED   1453
unix   3         [ ]            STREAM     CONNECTED   1212    /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix   3         [ ]            STREAM     CONNECTED   1173
unix   3         [ ]            STREAM     CONNECTED   383
unix   3         [ ]            STREAM     CONNECTED   382

 
Thanks, Galina.
 
[email protected] wrote:
1) check (and send to the list) # cat /etc/inetd.conf
2) same with # netstat -na
3) # date > /tftpboot/myfile
4) # cat /tftpboot/myfile
5) # ls -l /tftproot
6) (from another fat box) $ tftp thinclient
get /myfile
7) (from this same fat box) $ cat myfile

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:15:01 +1100
>From: "Tim Bates" 
>Subject: Re: [pxes-devel] PXES thin client as a TFTP Server 
>To: 

>
> Oh right... Misread and therefore misunderstood what
> you were trying to do.
> 
> Tim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Galina Bari
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [pxes-devel] PXES thin client as a
> TFTP Server
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> Thank you for replying. I don't think the NICs are
> the problem. Tftp works fine when a thin client
> tries to tftp-get a file from a fat box.
>
> In this thread:
> http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=2873158
Diego
> wrote that all it takes to make a PXES thin client
> into a tftp server is to set 
> LOCAL_TFTPD_ENABLED=1 in its conf file, but
> obviously I miss something because my thin client
> does not become a tftp server.
>
> It would be a pity to miss such an efficient tftp
> solution!
>
> Galina.
>
> Tim Bates wrote:
>
> Wasn't there a dodgy PXE implementation on early
> Intel cards that did
> something like that? It would get DHCP response
> try to connect to TFTP
> then say timed out even though the TFTP server
> responded... Something
> like that anyway.
>
> What network cards are you using? What version
> number do they say they
> have for PXE when they attempt to boot?
>
> Tim
>
> Diego Torres Milano wrote:
> > You didn't.
> > TFTP is UDP based, no connection until you get
> a file.
>
> >>Well, I manage to connect to the tftp on the
> local_tftp_thin_client,
> >>but whenever I try to tftp get a file from
> this local_tftp I receive a
> >>"Transfer timed out" error message. Tftp get
> command from a thin
> >>client to a fat box completes successfully. Do
> I have to configure
> >>anything in LOCAL_TFTPD_OPTIONS? Any other
> suggestions?
>
> 
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