TFTP Serving

Proven on:

12 (bookworm)

Reference Material

• TecMint: How to Install and Configure TFTP Server on Ubuntu and Debian
• Debian Wiki: TFTP
• Ubuntu Community Wiki: TFTP

CopyPasta

• sudo apt install tftpd-hpa
• sudo systemctl enable tftpd-hpa
• sudo systemctl status tftpd-hpa.service
• sudo vi /etc/default/tftpd-hpa

1. /etc/default/tftpd-hpa

TFTP_USERNAME="tftp"
TFTP_DIRECTORY="/srv/tftp"
TFTP_ADDRESS=":69"
TFTP_OPTIONS="--secure --create"

• sudo chown -R tftp /srv/tftp

Notes & Thoughts

The TFTP_DIRECTORY entry in /etc/default/tftpd-hpa should be changed to reflect a dedicated space.

The TFTP_OPTIONS entry doesn't really need (and shouldn't have!) --create for normal usage. This is really only here to allow putting things in place from remote machines. Must come up with a better solution. (Maybe using FTP or NFS...)