Syslinux - May 2004 - tftp-hpa versus atftpd

I'm interested to find out how many people are running tftp-hpa versus
atftpd.
  I'm almost a bit surprised in how many people seem to be using tftp-hpa;
for
modern Unix systems (including Linux), I would in general assume atftpd to be 
a better choice.

If you have tried both and specifically chosen (as opposed to "it was
already
installed", etc.) I'd be interested in why.

This has a fair bit of impact as to where to take future development.

Thanks,

	-hpa

I won't use atftpd because it can only be started from inetd.

BTW, is there a reason to run tftpd as root? I know that the daemon
forks and abandons privileges to service a request, but I didn't find
a reason for it not to do it permanently. I patch it to run as nobody
after binding to the port.

hpa,

Been using tftp-hpa for almost 3 years now, never had a problem with it, 
so there's not a reason to switch.  While working at my previous job (a 
web hosting company) we had it deployed at various data centers across the 
world and never ran into problems with it.  Currently I use it in the lab 
here, but only during actual installs, and there's generally not too many 
of those happening at once.

James

James S. Martin, RHCE
Contractor
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Washington, DC
(202) 502-2394

syslinux-bounces at zytor.com wrote on 05/27/2004 07:39:06 PM:
> I'm interested to find out how many people are running tftp-hpa 
> versus atftpd. 
>   I'm almost a bit surprised in how many people seem to be using 
> tftp-hpa; for 
> modern Unix systems (including Linux), I would in general assume atftpd 
to be 
> a better choice.
> 
> If you have tried both and specifically chosen (as opposed to "it was 
already 
> installed", etc.) I'd be interested in why.
> 
> This has a fair bit of impact as to where to take future development.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>    -hpa
> 
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On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 04:39:06PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin
wrote:
> I'm interested to find out how many people are running tftp-hpa versus 
> atftpd. I'm almost a bit surprised in how many people seem to be using 
>  tftp-hpa; for modern Unix systems (including Linux), I would in general 
> assume atftpd to be a better choice.
I've been using tftp-hpa on an older install server for about 3 years
without problems.

When I setup a new server though, the distro had an aftpd package, so I
tried it, again without problems.  For me this was a laziness issue,
aftpd was packaged, and tftp-hpa wasn't (on SuSE anyway).

Brian