User Manual
– DuraNET 3300
Operational Description
MNL-0676-01 Rev A4
ECO- N/A
Effective: 26 Feb 21
Page 53 of 84
Figure 4.7: tftpd-hpa is running.
The default configuration file of
tftpd-hpa
server is
/etc/default/tftpd-hpa
. If you want to configure
the TFTP server, then you have to modify this configuration file and restart the
tftpd-hpa
service.
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To modify the
/etc/default/tftpd-hpa
configuration file (Figure 4.8), run the following
command:
~$ sudo nano /etc/default/tftpd-hpa
Figure 4.8: Modify the /etc/default/tftpd-hpa configuration file.
The configuration file should now be open for editing, and showing the default configuration of the TFTP
server. See figure 4.9 below.
Here,
TFTP_USERNAME
is set to
tftp
. It means the TFTP server will run as the user
tftp
.
TFTP_DIRECTORY
is set to
/var/lib/tftpboot
. It means
/var/lib/tftpboot
is the directory on this
server which you will be able to accessing via TFTP.
TFTP_ADDRESS
is set to
:69
. It means TFTP will run on port
69
.
TFTP_OPTIONS
is set to
–
secure
. This variable sets the TFTP options. There are many options that
you can use to configure how the TFTP server will behave.
The
–
secure
option means change the TFTP directory to what is set on the
TFTP_DIRECTORY
variable
when you connect to the TFTP server automatically. This is a security feature. If you hadn’t set the
–
secure
option, then you would have to connect to the TFTP server and set the directory manually.