Setting up atftpd or tftpd on a server, specific eth port

[tkindig]

I need to set up a tftp service on a server in a LAN so that it listens only on a specific network in a vLAN, via a dedicated network interface.

My workstations are in a 192.168.x network in the default vLAN. They do not do bootP and I do not want them to try. DHCP in this LAN is set up to answer requests from MITEL IP PHONES by sending them to a vLAN 5, and specifying a bootP server at 172.16.x.222. The phones have everything they need, assuming TFTP provides the files they need in order to boot up.

The second NIC is configured with a static IP 172.16.2.222 in this LAN. It is plugged into a switch on a port configured to vLAN 5, untagged.

I would like the tftp deamon to listen only on this second NIC. We do have ZENworks imaging, and occasionally we start proxy-dhcp services in order to restore a Windows image to a workstation. I do not want to interfere with this service.

I have been using atftpd on a dedicated Ubuntu box and know how to configure it for this purpose. I would now like to do this on my Branch servers with SLES11, as I have a free NIC with which to do it.

I see that atftpd, novell-tftp, tftp, and yast2-tftp-server are all available. What do you recommend? Is there a way to configure the service to listen only to requests from the 172.16.x ethernet interface?

[malcolmlewis]

On Wed 05 Mar 2014 06:04:02 PM CST, tkindig wrote:

I need to set up a tftp service on a server in a LAN so that it listens
only on a specific network in a vLAN, via a dedicated network interface.

My workstations are in a 192.168.x network in the default vLAN. They do
not do bootP and I do not want them to try. DHCP in this LAN is set up
to answer requests from MITEL IP PHONES by sending them to a vLAN 5, and
specifying a bootP server at 172.16.x.222. The phones have everything
they need, assuming TFTP provides the files they need in order to boot
up.

The second NIC is configured with a static IP 172.16.2.222 in this LAN.
It is plugged into a switch on a port configured to vLAN 5, untagged.

I would like the tftp deamon to listen only on this second NIC. We do
have ZENworks imaging, and occasionally we start proxy-dhcp services in
order to restore a Windows image to a workstation. I do not want to
interfere with this service.

I have been using atftpd on a dedicated Ubuntu box and know how to
configure it for this purpose. I would now like to do this on my Branch
servers with SLES11, as I have a free NIC with which to do it.

I see that atftpd, novell-tftp, tftp, and yast2-tftp-server are all
available. What do you recommend? Is there a way to configure the
service to listen only to requests from the 172.16.x ethernet interface?

Hi
I would use YaST Network Devices to configure the interface with the
address and gateway you require, then use YaST tftp to configure the
tftp server as required.

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