[syslinux] tftpd: read: Connection refused

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jul 8 13:04:12 PDT 2008


Andreas Moroder wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we have two diskless machines in a routed network.
> Both get their IP adresse and tftp configuration via dhcp.
> 
> When we start one machine all works well, when the second machine tries 
> to download the kernel via tftp we get this error:
> 
> Jul  8 09:49:52 voyager2 in.tftpd[8374]: RRQ from 10.63.5.122 filename 
> /andreas/pxelinux.0
> Jul  8 09:49:53 voyager2 in.tftpd[8374]: tftpd: read: Connection refused
> 
> The entries in dhcpd.conf are the same ( except for the MAC )
> They are both in the same network and both try to download the same kernel.
> The file /tftpboot/andreas/pxelinux.0 exists
> 
> in.tftp is called from inetd.conf with this parameters
> 
> tftp          dgram   udp     wait    root      /usr/sbin/tcpd  in.tftpd 
> -v -v -v -p -s /tftpboot
> 

Well, in addition to the /usr/sbin/tcpd being useless here (in.tftpd 
handles tcpwrappers internally) I would guess a network configuration 
error; probably in iptables.

	-hpa




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