[techtalk] tftp timing out

[eito]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 03:58:28PM -0500, Nicoya Helm wrote:
> I think I must be missing something very obvious here.  When I try to 
> do a tftp transfer from another machine to mine (running solaris 8), 
> the request is timing out, but from what I can see the server is 
> running correctly on my machine, and both machines can see each other 
> (ping, traceroute).  inetd.conf reads:
> 
> tftp  dgram udp6 wait root  /usr/sbin/in.tftpd  in.tftpd -s /tftpboot
>
> and I've kill -1'd  it each time I've made any modifications. Any 
> ideas?

Hi,

I think that you should use 'udp' instead of udp6 here.

> tftp  dgram udp6 wait root  /usr/sbin/in.tftpd  in.tftpd -s /tftpboot
              ^^^^
I am aware that Solaris 8 supports IPv6, so I may be wrong.

If you are trying to configure a jump start server or something,
you might want to try to look at

  http://docs.sun.com



Hope this helps

:eito