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Installing and Testing TFTP Server in Ubuntu

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Installing and Testing TFTPD Server in Ubuntu

  • Install following packages. 
sudo apt-get install xinetd tftpd tftp
  • Create /etc/xinetd.d/tftp and put this entry 
service tftp
{
protocol        = udp
port            = 69
socket_type     = dgram
wait            = yes
user            = nobody
server          = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args     = /tftpboot
disable         = no
}
  • Create a folder /tftpboot this should match whatever you gave in server_args. mostly it will be tftpboot 
sudo mkdir /tftpboot
sudo chmod -R 777 /tftpboot
sudo chown -R nobody /tftpboot
  • Restart the xinetd service 
sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd stop
sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd start

Now our tftp server is up and running.

Testing our tftp server

  • Create a file named test.txt with some content in /tftpboot path of the tftp server
  • Obtain the ip address of the tftp server using ifconfig command
  • Now in some other system follow the following steps. 
tftp "ipServerTftp
tftp> get test
Sent 159 bytes in 0.0 seconds
tftp> quit
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