Re: [TCLUG:10436] tftp problems

["Scott K . Johnson" <seker@uswest.net>]

Yes, the file definately has to exist beforehand.

When I played with it, I figured it was partly to help ease the
un-security of tftp.  

Being that there is no authentication information sent/recieved...

You may also want to control access via xinetd or something similar.

Just a thought.

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 02:43:35PM -0600, Adam Maloney might have said:
> I think this is the intended behavior of tftpd.  If you're just managing
> IOS code, you can touch(1) files like this:
> 
> c2900XL-hs-mz-112.8.5-SA6.bin
> ios-113.1.5-R7.bin
> 
> Whenever you're going to tftp a new file up, touch a filename in
> /tftpboot directory and when IOS prompts you for the remote filename,
> specify the same.
> 
> Kind of a hack, but it works for me here.  I'm managing 3 routers and a
> catalyst switch in this manner.  Works well for uploading configs too. 
> I just touch wormhole-config, dsl-gw-config and entropy-config
> 
> Scott wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> >   I'm attempting to set up a tftp server for managing  Cisco IOS
> > microcode and router configurations. I have no problems with executing
> > 'get' commands. But when I try to 'put' a file to the server I get a
> > "file not found" error if there is not a file of the same name already
> > on the server. If the file already exists, the 'put' proceeds with out
> > error. So the bottom line is that the server will only let me overwrite
> > a file and not create a new one. In attempts to troubleshoot the
> > problem, I'm running the in.tftpd daemon as root, and the tftp directory
> > is 777.  This set up is in an isolated test lab so I don't really care
> > how secure it is. I just want it to work like ftp does. Or is this
> > working as tftp should work. Any help out there.
> > 
> >     -Scott Donoho
> >        losdios@hotmail.com
> > 
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