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Re: Problem TFTPing from redboot
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- To: Douglas Bush <dbush at extremeeng dot com>
- Cc: 'eCos Discussion List' <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 18:51:44 +0000
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Problem TFTPing from redboot
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <003001c1b4d8$d48e5d80$090110ac@TRENT>
Douglas Bush wrote:
>
> I did a couple of captures (hex ascii at bottom of files) with a running
> TFTP server, one from an OpenBSD TFTP client, and one from Redboot.
> Both were accessing Windows TFTPD32 for download.
>
> What I noticed was that the Redboot requests OCTET transfers, and adds
> another 500 bytes or so of 0's to the end of the transfer.
>
> Perhaps that's why windows TFTP servers don't work well with redboot...
It looks like there was a fix for this problem around 11th June last year
in CVS. Do your redboot sources predate that? If so, update! (Of course
maybe that's what you are trying to do ;-), in which case as Jesper says
something like ymodem over serial is a good intermediate workaround).
Jifl
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