[syslinux] Making tftp-hpa ignore files

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Dec 16 19:50:11 PST 2005


Chris Verges wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> Is there any way to make tftp-hpa ignore certain files in the tftpboot 
> directory (-s /tftpboot) based on their filenames?  We're running into 
> an issue where users place an auto-config file in the directory and then 
> about 3,000 routers download this, overriding their correct 
> configurations.  Obviously the root issue is that people are placing 
> these files there in the first place, but if we could use an "ignore 
> list" to just not honor those requests at the TFTP server, it would 
> greatly reduce the problems we've been experiencing.
> 

Yes, just put a reject rule in the remap file.

	-hpa




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