[U-Boot-Users] Help about tftp download

[Li Weichen <liwch.nk@gmail.com>]

I have found the reason.  My host PC has 2 ethernet cards, and the tftp
server is installed on the eth0 which ip is 192.168.0.11.

Thank you for your reply!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: u-boot-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:u-boot-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jerry Van
> Baren
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:59 PM
> To: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Help about tftp download
> 
> Li Weichen wrote:
> >>Another suggestion: from a (linux) box command line, tftp to your server
> >>and verify that it works.  Your message is indicating that your server
> >>is 192.168.4.1 and the file you are trying to get is
> >>/tftpboot/u-boot.bin so do the following (I'm typing this from memory,
> >>so it may not be quite right)...
> >>
> >>$ tftp 192.168.4.1
> >>tftp> get /tftpboot/u-boot.bin
> >
> > Sorry but after I typed tftp 192.168.4.1, it came up with message looks
like
> > get uImage froam tftp server automatically.
> >
> >>Getting TFTP to work (i.e. properly configured) usually solves the
> >>problem in my experience.
> >>
> >>gvb
> 
> Hi Li,
> 
> You result description ment nothing to me.  Please cut & paste real
> messages.  Are you typing "tftp 192.168.4.1" from your _host_ (linux
> server) command line?
> 
> OK, I ran a real instance on my home box (Debian 3.1 x86)
> vanbaren at dellserver:~$ uname -a
> Linux dellserver.lan 2.4.27-050821 #17 SMP Sun Aug 21 22:46:01 EDT 2005
> i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> vanbaren at dellserver:~$ dpkg-query -l "*tftp*"
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version        Description
> +++-==============-==============-========================================
> ====
> ii  tftp           0.17-13        Trivial file transfer protocol client
> ii  tftpd          0.17-13        Trivial file transfer protocol server
> 
> 
> vanbaren at dellserver:~$ ls /tftpboot/hello_world
> hello_world
> 
> vanbaren at dellserver:~$ tftp localhost
> tftp> get hello_world
> Received 101214 bytes in 0.1 seconds
> tftp> get /tftpboot/hello_world
> Received 101214 bytes in 0.0 seconds
> tftp> quit
> 
> vanbaren at dellserver:~$ grep tftp /etc/inetd.conf
> tftp            dgram   udp     wait    nobody  /usr/sbin/tcpd
> /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /tftpboot
> 
> 
> I was a little surprised that the tftp "get" worked with the /tftpboot
> full path.  On a different box that I used (RH), it is configured as "-s
> /tftpboot" for the option (rather than "/tftpboot") so tftpd treats
> paths as relative to /tftpboot and thus the get "/tftpboot/foo" won't
> work because there is no /tftpboot/tftpboot/foo on the server.  This
> should not be your problem since your configuration matches mine.
> 
> HTH,
> gvb
> 
> 
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