[OmniOS-discuss] in.tftpd not working and how to fix it

[Dan McDonald]

I'll make sure the wiki gets fixed this week.

Thanks,
Dan

Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)

> On Feb 3, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
> 
> caveat: due to the kvm performance problem I am still running 010
> ... but maybe this is also a problem on more recent versions ...
> 
> so here goes:
> 
> after upgrading to 010 the tftp service on our omnios box stopped
> working properly ... it served a few bytes of the request and then
> timed out ...
> 
> we investigated for a bit and then moved our tftp service to linux.
> 
> Today I ran into the problem again and found the solution:
> 
> on http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/Installation there is:
> 
> Activate TFTP server by adding the following line to
> /etc/inetd.conf and running the "inetconv" command. This will
> create an SMF service, network/tftp/udp6. Don't worry about the
> "udp6" bit-- it listens for both IPv4 and IPv6 connections.
> 
> well as it turnes out, you actually SHOULD worry and use 'udp'
> instead ... then all will work nicely (on ip4 at least).
> 
> cheers
> tobi
> 
> -- 
> Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland
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