[asterisk-users] OT - How to test tftp for phones provisioning

[Drew Gibson]

Olivier wrote:
>
>
>      tftp is the client, do you have it installed ?... example:
>
>      # tftp hostname
>      tftp> get /srv/tftp/foo.txt
>      tftp> ^D
>      # cat foo.txt
>      ...
>
>
> That was exactly what I was after : I installed tftp on my Ubuntu 
> system and checked Debian tftp server
>
>
>
>      Things to check: is /srv/tftp the "tftp" directory or is it the
>     os filesystem
>      directory where the tftp root resides ?
>
>      Also, the tftp daemon in CentOS is started by xinetd and can be
>      invoked with extra -v flags so as to increase logging verbosity.
>      Check your dist. This may help...
>
> Yes, that's the next step.
> I could see a tftp service is running ok on my server and I need to 
> increase its logs to pinpoint root cause.
>

Olivier,

also check that you don't have any firewalls in the way, especially if 
there is nothing in the logs. Turn them off for testing, on both server 
and CLIENT. I found out about the client f/w blocking tftp the hard way! :-)

regards,

Drew

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Drew Gibson

Systems Administrator
OANDA Corporation
www.oanda.com