[TCPIP V5.6] Still no TFTP client?

Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER

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Apr 22, 2007, 4:13:59 AM4/22/07

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Is this correct that there is still no TFTP client in the most current
version V5.6 of TCPIP/UCX product included?

TIA

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Ruslan R. Laishev

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Apr 23, 2007, 4:35:30 AM4/23/07

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Hello, Peter!

If you need a TFTP client, there is a simple one:
http://starlet.deltatel.ru/~laishev/work/tftp/

Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER wrote:
> Is this correct that there is still no TFTP client in the most current
> version V5.6 of TCPIP/UCX product included?
>
> TIA
>

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Bill Gunshannon

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Apr 23, 2007, 8:13:05 AM4/23/07

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In article <FB8538CC6AF4489B...@nntp.deltatel.ru>,

"Ruslan R. Laishev" <zzLa...@zzDeltaTelecom.RU-remove.all-zz-to-reply> writes:
> Hello, Peter!
>
> If you need a TFTP client, there is a simple one:
> http://starlet.deltatel.ru/~laishev/work/tftp/
>

The only thing wrong with using a TFTP Client is that you have to also
have a TFTP Server running somewhere. :-(

bill

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P. Sture

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Apr 23, 2007, 8:43:42 AM4/23/07

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In article <593m6hF...@mid.individual.net>,
bi...@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:

> In article <FB8538CC6AF4489B...@nntp.deltatel.ru>,
> "Ruslan R. Laishev" <zzLa...@zzDeltaTelecom.RU-remove.all-zz-to-reply>
> writes:
> > Hello, Peter!
> >
> > If you need a TFTP client, there is a simple one:
> > http://starlet.deltatel.ru/~laishev/work/tftp/
> >
>
> The only thing wrong with using a TFTP Client is that you have to also
> have a TFTP Server running somewhere. :-(
>
> bill

TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS has a TFTP server. However, I don't know how
it compares with other implementations, so would ask someone else to
comment on that.

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Bill Gunshannon

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Apr 23, 2007, 8:51:51 AM4/23/07

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In article <paul.sture.nospam-3...@mac.sture.ch>,

TFTP has no usernames or passwords. Why would anyone who has any concern
about security (that's all VMS Admins, right?) agree to run it on their
machine?

Dan Foster

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Apr 23, 2007, 9:03:34 AM4/23/07

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In article <paul.sture.nospam-3...@mac.sture.ch>, P. Sture <paul.stu...@hispeed.ch> wrote:
>
> TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS has a TFTP server. However, I don't know how
> it compares with other implementations, so would ask someone else to
> comment on that.

If it supports RFC 2348 (which supports file sizes greater than 32 MB),
it's probably good. The TFTP server on my older non-VMS platforms
doesn't support this; newer non-VMS platforms does.

-Dan

Hans Bachner

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Apr 24, 2007, 4:53:28 PM4/24/07

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Bill Gunshannon <bi...@cs.uofs.edu> wrote:

<snip>

> TFTP has no usernames or passwords. Why would anyone who has any concern
> about security (that's all VMS Admins, right?) agree to run it on their
> machine?

It's useful for stuff like downloading firmware/configuration data or
booting from the network as an alternative to MOP which isn't supported by
all possible clients.

Hans.