TFTP does not work

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Fri Jul 28 19:22:52 BST 2006


On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 13:38 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> Why doesn't it work?!?!?  This bug makes Ubuntu unusable for embedded
> development.
> 
> All I am doing on the client is "tftp ip.ad.dre.ss" and "get
> file.name".
> It just comes back with "Timed out".
> 
> I thought IPv6 was supposed to be backwards compatible. 

I disabled IPv6 in the server's kernel config and it works.  So it seems
the problem is that none of the TFTP servers provided by Ubuntu are IPv6
compatible.

Lee




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