Bug 59987

Summary:	TFTP to MicroSoft TFTP server does not work
Product:	[Retired] eCos	Reporter:	Alex Schuilenburg <alexs>
Component:	RedBoot	Assignee:	eCos bugs internal list <es-ecos-bugs-int>
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Description Alex Schuilenburg 2002-02-18 11:06:33 UTC

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Description of problem:
When attempting to TFTP load from a Microsoft TFTP server, it fails. This is
because the RFC for TFTP specifies that "OCTET" be uppercase but MicroSoft TFTP
requires lowercase.

The workaround is to try first the uppercase "OCTET" then, if that fails, the
lowercase "octet", in RedBoot.

As reported by Douglas Bush of Extreme Engineering in ecos-discuss on  Feb 13, 2002.


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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start MS TFTP server
2. In RedBoot "load -h 172.16.1.15 -m tftp redboot.srec"
3. Observe error "Can't load 'redboot.srec': operation timed out"
	

Actual Results:  Can't load 'redboot.srec': operation timed out



Expected Results:  Should have loaded

Additional info:

Comment 1 George Thomas 2002-04-12 11:01:47 UTC

Tested against the TFTPD32 server running on Windows with no problems.

Is there a particular Windows server for which this fails?  If so, which
and how does one obtain it for testing?

Comment 2 Alex Schuilenburg 2002-04-12 16:31:33 UTC

    * 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: <


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

Comment 3 Alex Schuilenburg 2002-04-12 16:34:43 UTC

Jifl,

Did you get a private response from dbush to this issue?  

I assume we can close?

-- Alex

Comment 4 Jonathan Larmour 2002-04-12 17:47:58 UTC

I didn't get any response. I'm closing it (it isn't a "real" customer).