Configuring and Managing MPE/iX Internet Services (August 2002)

Chapter 5
63
5 TFTP Service
The Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a basic communications protocol used to transmit files between
nodes on a network. It is implemented on top of the Internet User Datagram Protocol (UDP), so it can be used
across networks that support UDP. On the HP e3000, the TFTP daemon tftpd transfers boot files to or from
the host HP e3000 to remote nodes on the network. This permits a network device to get the information it
needs to start itself.
This chapter describes:
• How to configure tftpd
• How to start tftpd once the server has been configured.
• Implementation differences between tftpd for MPE/iX and tftpd for HP-UX.