utftpd - A tiny TFTP server

utftpd is a tiny TFTP server whose sole purpose in life is to serve files to X-terminals. Thus, it only implements half the protocol, the part that involves the reading of files. Any writes will simply fail.

I wrote this mainly because the default TFTP server is not very good for this sort of thing, IMHO. It forks off a separate process for each TFTP connection and since an X-terminal loads around 100 files in quick succession on bootup, you end up with many little processes running concurrently.

Some of them got stuck, needing to be killed after a while. It wasn't very good for the load either.

So I wrote utftpd which runs as a single process serving as many concurrent connections as necessary. Each connection is logged to syslog if requested.

April 2004 - Significant improvements provided by Mark Verboom <mverboom (at) corp.home.nl>. Including a daemon mode, a man page, several bugfixes and additional logging. Used to support over 300,000 cable modems.

Options

• -l
  Enables logging of filenames to syslog
• -d
  Enables daemon mode
• -h
  Display help and exit
• -v
  Displays version and exit
• x.x.x.x/x
  Network number and net-mask of machines to serve. You may list up-to 16 (compile-time limit) networks
• /path/to/serve
  Path prefix of the files to serve. You may list up-to 16 (compile-time limit) paths.

For example, to serve my X-terminals I use the following command:

/usr/local/bin/utftpd -l 192.168.1.0/24 /boot/xengine/

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