OpenSUSE Leap 42: Install tftp for TFTP server

This article will describe installing tftp for TFTP server.

1 Install tftp

Install tftp package. /srv/tftpboot is used for TFTP server directory.

$ sudo zypper -n in tftp
$ sudo systemctl enable tftp.socket

Open TFTP port.

$ for t in FW_CONFIGURATIONS_EXT FW_CONFIGURATIONS_DMZ FW_CONFIGURATIONS_INT; do
  sudo sed -e "s/^${t}=\"\(.*\)\"/${t}=\"\1 tftp\"/g" \
       -i /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2
done
$ sudo systemctl restart SuSEfirewall2

Reboot for tftp.socket.

$ sudo reboot

2 GET file with tftp

Put file to /srv/tftpboot.

$ echo "hello" | sudo tee /srv/tftpboot/hello.txt

Get file with tftp from TFTP server.

$ echo "get hello.txt" | tftp 127.0.0.1
tftp> get hello.txt
tftp>
$ cat hello.txt
hello