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TFTP Service

5 TFTP Service

The Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a basic communications

protocol used to transmit ﬁles between nodes on a network. It is

implemented on top of the Internet User Datagram Protocol (UDP), so

it can be used across networks that support UDP. On the HP 3000, the

TFTP daemon tftpd transfers boot ﬁles to or from the host HP 3000 to

remote nodes on the network. This permits a network device to get the

information it needs to start itself.

This chapter describes:

• How to conﬁgure tftpd

• How to start tftpd once the server has been conﬁgured.

• Implementation differences between tftpd for MPE/iX and tftpd

for HP-UX.