Re: tftp and cisco

[John Francis Lee <jfl worldnet att net>]

I believe the file to be read/written by tftp must exist before it can be
read/written... so try touch /tmp/shangai--isdn-conf and then copy run tftp.
Maybe chmod 777 /tmp/shangai--isdn-conf.

Jephe Wu wrote:

> I have a Redhat Linux server running on our LAN,(192.168.0.2) and a Cisco
> 2601 router (192.168.0.254), I hope to download cisco route configuration
> file to linux server by tftp . so I enabled tftp in /etc/inetd.conf on Linux
> server as follows:
>
> tftp   dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  in.tftpd /tmp
>
> and /tmp is set to drwxrwxrwx . anyone can write to it.
>
> but when I telnet to route and route# copy running-config tftp , it reported
> error message.
>
> Writing shanghai--isdn-confg ..... [Failed]
>
> why? how should I do?
>
> Thanks
>
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