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Available TFTP Server

• atftpd
  Advanced TFTP server.
• tftpd
  Trivial file transfer protocol server.
• tftpd-hpa
  HPA’s tftp server.
• dnsmasq
  Lightweight DNS, TFTP and DHCP server.

Install TFTP Server

Install tftpd-hpa

1. Do everything in this chapter as root or using sudo
2. Install tftpd-hpa

   # apt install tftpd-hpa

3. Check configuration

   # vim /etc/default/tftpd-hpa

   The default configuration on Debian look like this

   # /etc/default/tftpd-hpa
   
   TFTP_USERNAME="tftp"
   TFTP_DIRECTORY="/srv/tftp"
   TFTP_ADDRESS="0.0.0.0:69"
   TFTP_OPTIONS="--secure"

4. Create a test file to tftp directory

   # echo "test" > <TFTP_DIRECTORY>/test.txt

5. Restart server if configuration is changed

   # systemctl start tftpd-hpa

6. Check status of server

   # systemctl status tftpd-hpa

Test TFTP Server

1. Install TFTP client.
   Do it as root or using sudo.

   # apt install tftp

2. Connect to server and download the test file

   $ tftp <ip-address>
   tftp> status
   Connected to 192.168.13.137.
   Mode: netascii Verbose: off Tracing: off
   Rexmt-interval: 5 seconds, Max-timeout: 25 seconds
   tftp> get test.txt
   Received 6 bytes in 0.0 seconds
   tftp> quit

3. Remove test file from server

   # rm <TFTP_DIRECTORY>/test.txt