The differences between these pakages TFTP, TFTPD, or with -HPA?

lifeforce4 · 06-06-2008, 10:44 AM

Well I did some searching to figure out what the differences between the packages. I understand the -hpa is from OpenBSD but whats the differences between TFTP and TFTPD or ATFTP and ATFTPD? I just need a simple TFTP client to send Cisco configurations to which I think all would be fine for that. Maybe some one could explain what some of the extra functions are with *D or ATFTP.

Thank you,
Kyle

farslayer · 06-06-2008, 03:40 PM

D indicates a daemon.(server)
the others would be clients..

Typically with Cisco when you are on the command line and issue a tftp command you are telling the Cisco device to be a client and connect to a remote daemon(server) to put or grab a configuration or image from the server. so if that's what you are trying to do then you want TFTPD or ATFTPD on your Linux box..

ATFTPD - Advanced TFTP Server
TFTPD - TFTP Server

http://packages.debian.org/etch/tftp

http://packages.debian.org/etch/atftp

lifeforce4 · 06-06-2008, 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by farslayer

D indicates a daemon.(server)
the others would be clients..

Typically with Cisco when you are on the command line and issue a tftp command you are telling the Cisco device to be a client and connect to a remote daemon(server) to put or grab a configuration or image from the server. so if that's what you are trying to do then you want TFTPD or ATFTPD on your Linux box..

ATFTPD - Advanced TFTP Server
TFTPD - TFTP Server

http://packages.debian.org/etch/tftp

http://packages.debian.org/etch/atftp

So TFTP with out the daemon is just a client and can not act as a server to process requests from other clients? Thank you for the help yes the cisco devices are always clients they just have a process in them that is a GET/PUT depending on how the command is typed.

Thanks again,
Kyle