tftp timeouts in 1.4.1

Franklin franklin at goodhorse.idv.tw
Wed May 9 00:12:16 UTC 2007


Alexander Kriegisch's messages:
> > That's why there is a small set of post-1.4.1 fixes on busybox.net:
> > http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/
> > In particular, busybox-1.4.1-tftp.patch
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience of having you point me to that patch. I
> applied it and tftp behaves differently now, but it is still broken.
> New symptoms:
>   - File transfers up to 512 bytes are handled correctly.
>   - Files bigger than 512 bytes result in the first 512 bytes
>     transferred, but then there are timeouts again. After Ctrl-C or
>     after the last timeout I have a 512 bytes file which is inaccessible
>     on my Windows box. I cannot even delete it, until I changed ACLs so
>     I have the rights to do so.
>   - Using '-b 1024', for example, gets me a 571 bytes file showing the
>     *end* of the file to be transferred, not the beginning. Very strange
>     indeed.
>   - Using '-b 4096' gets me a 0 bytes file which is inaccessible again.
>
> Does that make any sense? I am attaching new strace logs of sessions
> with different '-b' sizes (default, 1024, 4096). Tell me if you need
> anything else.

Maybe you can try version 1.4.2.  I met the same problem with 1.4.1, also not 
resolved by patching, but after upgrading to 1.4.2 everything about tftp is 
OK.



Regards,
Franklin
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