Hi,

I'm having problems to use tftp on a netbsd-2 (todays sources) i386
system.

$ grep ^tftp /etc/inetd.conf
tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/libexec/tftpd tftpd -l -s /tftpboot
$ ls -l /tftpboot
total 2
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  5 Apr  8 14:16 test
$ sudo /usr/sbin/inetd -d -l
ADD : tftp proto=udp, wait.max=1.40, user:group=root:(null) builtin=0 server=/usr/libexec/tftpd policy=
[...]

Now I start tftp on the same host:

$ tftp bart
tftp> get test
Transfer timed out.

tftp> quit

Just before the clien times out (after about 25 seconds) inetd prints:

someone wants tftp
10605 execl /usr/libexec/tftpd
10605 reaped, status 0
restored tftp, fd 5

and syslogd logs:

Apr  8 14:58:38 bart tftpd[7625]: 192.168.12.104: read request for test: success

Indeed, the file was successfully transferred:

$ ls -l test
-rw-r--r--  1 jukka  jukka  5 Apr  8 14:55 test

Tracing the tftp client revealed it was (repeating) doing

   792 tftp     RET   recvfrom RESTART
   792 tftp     PSIG  SIGALRM caught handler=0x804b590 mask=())
   792 tftp     CALL  __sigprocmask14(3,0x804de78,0)
   792 tftp     RET   __sigprocmask14 0
   792 tftp     CALL  sendto(3,0x804dc40,4,0,0xbfbff440,0x10)
   792 tftp     GIO   fd 3 wrote 4 bytes
       "\0\^D\0\^A"
   792 tftp     RET   sendto 4
   792 tftp     CALL  setitimer(0,0xbfbff370,0xbfbff360)
   792 tftp     RET   setitimer 0
   792 tftp     CALL  recvfrom(3,0x805de64,0x204,0,0xbfbff4d0,0xbfbff3bc)

until timing out. However, I've no idea what this tells me...


Hmm, any hints? Why does the tranfer time out? What should I try next?

TIA, Jukka

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