Comments on: Home test, and tftp bits

By: martin

martin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:39:18 +0000

Try relative symlinks as your default for “local” symlinks. It’s usually easiest to change in the directory where you want to symlink and then do the ln -s from there. I think relative symlinks are more robust in many cases.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:02:27 +0000

‘tcpdump | grep tftp’ should be ‘tcpdump -n port tftp’ or at least ‘tcpdump -n -l | grep –line-buffered tftp’

oh and.. I think I commented about this a while ago, but your blog is still messed up. It looks like it is hacked. Run these commands:

wget -Onormal.html http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=904
wget -Ogoogle.html http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=904 –referer=http://www.google.com/reader/
diff normal.html google.html

and you’ll see a ton of crap instead of your normal content

By: oliver

oliver — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:44:23 +0000

Nice writeup! To join in, here’s a hint I found useful:

When trying to use TFTP for netbooting a system (with PXE), the TFTP file transfer might start but then freeze. This could be an MTU problem. For me, it helped to add “-B 1200″ to the tftpd command line (in (x)inetd configuration file). This reduces the maximum packet size to 1200 bytes and makes TFTP work with networks interfaces which have a low MTU set.