Bug 464096

Summary: [RFE] Please add support for IPv6 to tftp
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Tomas Smetana <tsmetana>
Component: tftpAssignee: Jiri Skala <jskala>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: BaseOS QE <qe-baseos-auto>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 5.2CC: aglotov, bugproxy, ddumas, jjarvis, ohudlick, rlerch, rvokal, sghosh, tao
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: FutureFeature, Rebase, Triaged
Target Release: 5.4   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Rebase: Bug Fixes and Enhancements
Doc Text:
tftp has now been rebased to version 0.49. This applies several upstream feature updates and bug fixes, including support IPv6.
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Last Closed: 2009-09-02 09:37:04 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 445204    

Description Tomas Smetana 2008-09-26 09:14:17 UTC
Description of problem:

The tftp server and client package that RHEL distributes doesn't work with IPv6.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

tftp-server-0.42-3.1

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. edit /etc/xinet.d/tftp, change flags = IPv4 to flags = IPv6
2. use "curl -6 tftp://serverhostname/filename" to download a file via IPv6
3. try tftp client, but there is no way to specify that IPv6 should be used

Expected results:

We should really upgrade, patch, or switch to a server/client for TFTP that
supports IPv6.

Comment 3 Jiri Skala 2008-12-11 09:18:52 UTC
*** Bug 474706 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 IBM Bug Proxy 2008-12-11 09:23:28 UTC
=Comment: #0=================================================
Emily J. Ratliff <ratliff.com> -
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id:	[201224]
a. Name of Feature:	Enable IPv6 support in tftp client/server
b. Feature Description
Add IPv6 support to tftp client and server packages.

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor:	LTC
Architectures:
x86
x86_64
ppc64

Arch Specificity: Purely Common Code
Delivery Mechanism: Direct from community
Category:	Networking
Request Type:	Package - Feature from Upstream
d. Upstream Acceptance:	Accepted
Sponsor Priority	1
f. Severity: High
IBM Confidential:	no
Code Contribution:	IBM code
g. Component Version Target:	tftp-hpa - Hosted at:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/network/tftp/

3. Business Case
tftp is one of the component that is required to enable network boot/install. IPv6 support in tftp
is required for network boot/install in a IPv6 only network environment.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat:
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Mike Wortman, wortman.com, 512-838-8582

Technical contact(s):
Sridhar Samudrala, samudrala.com

IBM Manager:
Larry Kessler, lkessler.com
The bug duplicates #464096 and the implementation of IPv6 is currently in F-9.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 464096 ***

Comment 5 Jiri Skala 2008-12-11 09:41:53 UTC
The implementation is in Fedora.

Comment 8 Jiri Skala 2009-04-14 07:16:34 UTC
Release note added. If any revisions are required, please set the 
"requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly.
All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

New Contents:
tftp has now been rebased to version 0.49. This applies several upstream feature updates and bug fixes, including support IPv6.

Comment 11 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-07-20 05:50:36 UTC
------- Comment From iranna.ankad.com 2009-07-20 01:48 EDT-------
As per IBM internal comments#8, #9 & #12, TFTP over IPv6 has no issues on both SystemX & ppc.

Thanks!

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 09:37:04 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2009-1274.html