Re: Weirdest ever TFTP problem!

From: mario (gianmarioRE.scottiMO_at_nokiaVE.com)
Date: 01/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:35:41 GMT

Answering my own post: I have, out of sheer frustration, rebooted the TFTP
server host, and it now works perfectly.

I will never know what went wrong.

"mario" <gianmarioRE.scottiMO@nokiaVE.com> wrote in message
news:FvPNb.6813$g4.146636@news2.nokia.com...
> Hello,
>
>
> for a jumpstart setup, we use a TFTP server running on a Solaris 8
computer
> (a 280R).
> This computer used to work OK, in fact, just two days earlier we
jumpstarted
> a host from it.
>
> A snoop started on the jumpstart server, when the host to be jumpstarted
got
> the "boot net - install":
> Using device /dev/qfe (promiscuous mode)
> eye -> jumpst2 TFTP Read "0A6D00E9" (octet)
> eye -> BROADCAST TFTP Read "0A6D00E9" (octet)
> eye -> BROADCAST TFTP Read "0A6D00E9" (octet)
> eye -> BROADCAST TFTP Read "0A6D00E9" (octet)
> eye -> BROADCAST TFTP Read "0A6D00E9" (octet)
> eye -> BROADCAST TFTP Read "0A6D00E9" (octet)
> eye -> BROADCAST TFTP Read "0A6D00E9" (octet)
> eye -> BROADCAST TFTP Read "0A6D00E9" (octet)
> <ad infinitum>
>
> Also, check this out::
>
> bash-2.03# tftp jumpst2
> tftp> get 0A6D00E9
> Transfer timed out.
>
> tftp> quit
> bash-2.03# ls -l 0A6D00E9
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 0 Jan 16 12:54 0A6D00E9
>
>
> The inetd.conf entry:
> bash-2.03# grep tftp /etc/inetd.conf
> tftp dgram udp6 wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
     in.tftpd -s
> /tftpboot
>
>
> Obviously, I already tried to pkill -1 inetd.
>
>
> I'm going crazy here. Nobody seems to know what's going on.
>
>
>
>
>
>

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