Chapter 5. TFTP Server

It provides config files, bootstraps for PXE client.

In Mandrake Linux 8.1 the package is : tftp-server-0.17-7mdk. By default on Mandrake Linux 8.x, tftp server is launched from the xinetd server :

service xinetd start

The TFTP server sources can be downloaded here [6]


	service tftp
{
        disable                 = no
        socket_type             = dgram
        protocol                = udp
        instances               = 2
        wait                    = yes
        user                    = nobody
        server                  = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
#       server_args             = -r blksize -r tsize -r timeout -v -v -s /tftpboot
        server_args             = -v -v -s /tftpboot
}