Thanks to all that replied and especially to Casper Dik who provided the big clue. What Casper pointed out was that Sun's in.tftpd binary complies with rfc783 and rfc2348 which allows block size negotiation with the server. So, if an application can do the negotiation, then all that needs to be done is to have the user pick a block size that will allow the size of the file to be transferred. There's no good way to get around the block counter mechanism that restricts the number of blocks to 65536 without modifying the tftpd source, so I've chosen the easy way and will specify blksize to accomplish what I need to do. One other tidbit needs to be mentioned here and that is it appears that Sun's in.tftpd binary complies with the rfc2348 starting with the Solaris 9 release. Copying the Solaris 9 binary to the Solaris 8 server appears not to cause any problems. We'll need to be aware of our change in the event a patch is installed that contains a new Solaris 8 binary for the tftp daemon that doesn't comply with rfc2348. Frank -- ------------------------------------------------------------ | | Frank Everitt | | Systems Administrator :|||: :|||: 7025 Kit Creek Rd. :|||||: :|||||: RTP, NC 27709 ..:|||||||:.....:|||||||:.... Ph. (919) 392-8885 CISCO SYSTEMS FAX. (603) 288-3074 ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Jul 22 11:12:50 2003
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