[syslinux] Issue with running tftpd-hpa in inetd mode?

Dan Swartzendruber dswartz at druber.com
Thu Jan 30 11:19:31 PST 2014


> On 01/30/2014 11:09 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, I get this part.  I think I misunderstood what xinetd was doing -
>> I
>> thought it was waiting for tftpd parent to exit and not processing
>> anything else.  So xinetd is ignoring tftp port during this sequence,
>> and
>> any new requests come in and are serviced by the parent tftpd which
>> spawns
>> new tftpd children to do the heavy lifting.  If nothing new comes in for
>> 900 seconds, the parent exits, xinetd re-enables tftp and life goes on?
>>
>
> Yes, that's the idea.

Cool, thanks for the quick reply and sorry for wasting bandwidth :)



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