Install and Setup TFTP Server on Ubuntu Linux

I had installed and setup TFTP Server on Ubuntu by below steps.

• Install tftpd and xinetd packages
• Create /etc/xinetd.d/tftp
• Create a tftp folder
• Restart the xinetd service
• Testing tftp server on Client site

Install tftpd and xinetd packages

At a terminal prompt, enter the following command to install dhcpd:

sudo apt-get install xinetd tftpd tftp

Create /etc/xinetd.d/tftp

Create /etc/xinetd.d/tftp and put this entry in it.
sudo vim /etc/xinetd.d/tftp
service tftp
{
protocol= udp
port= 69
socket_type = dgram
wait= yes
user= nobody
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args = /tftpboot
disable = no
}

Create a tftp folder

Create a folder /tftpboot and this folder should match whatever you gave in server_args above. mostly it will be tftpboot. And modify the authority of /tftpboot.
sudo mkdir /tftpboot
sudo chmod -R 777 /tftpboot
sudo chown -R nobody /tftpboot

Restart the xinetd service

sudo service xinetd restart #for new systems
or
sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd restart #for old systems

Testing tftp server on Client site

1. Install tftp on client site
   sudo apt-get install tftp
   
2. Create a file named file.1 in /tftpboot path of the tftp server
   cd /tftpboot
   sudo dd if=/dev/sda2 of=file.1 bs=1 count=65280
   
3. Obtain the ip address of the tftp server by ifconfig command. Example 192.168.1.1
   
4. Link to tftp server and get file from tftp server.
   tftp 192.168.1.2
   tftp> get file.1
   Received 1024 bytes in 0.0 seconds
   tftp> quit

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