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| ATFTP(1) |
General Commands Manual |
ATFTP(1) |
NAME¶
atftp - TFTP client (RFC1350).
SYNOPSIS¶
atftp [options] [host [port]]
DESCRIPTION¶
atftp can be used interactively or in batch mode to retrieve files from
TFTP servers. When used interactively, a summary of the commands can be
printed by typing 'help'. This TFTP client support all basic features from
RFC1350, RFC2347, RFC2348 and RFC2349. It also support multicast
implementation of RFC2090 and mtftp as defined in the PXE specification.
OPTIONS¶
This program supports both the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options
starting with two dashes ('--') as well as short options. Some options are
usable in batch mode only, they have no meaning when atftp is use
interactively. A description of the options is shown below.
- -g, --get
- Non interactive invocation only. Instruct atftp to fetch a file from a
tftp server.
- --mget
- Non interactive invocation only. Used to fetch a file from a mtftp capable
server.
- -p, --put
- Non interactive invocation only. Instruct atftp to send a file to a tftp
server.
- -P, --password
- Give password to tftp server. This is a non-standard extension to the
atftp client necessary for Linksys routers and shouldn't be used
elsewhere.
- -l, --local-file
- Non interactive invocation only. The client side (locat) file name to read
or write. Must be used in conjunction with --get or --put.
- -r, --remote-file
- Non interactive invocation only. The server side (remote) file name to get
or put. Must be used in conjunction with --get or --put.
- --tftp-timeout <value>
- Number of seconds for timeout of the client. Default is 5 seconds.
- --option <"name value">
- Set option "name" to "value". This command supports
exactly the same arguments as the interactive one. For example, use:
--option "blksize 1428" to configure block size.
Possible Values are:
--option "tsize enable"
--option "tsize disable"
--option "blksize 8"
--option "blksize 65464"
- --mtftp <"name value">
- Set mtftp possible options. Accepts the same options as the interactive
mtftp command. For example, use: --mtftp "client-port 76" to
configure client side port to use.
- --no-source-port-checking
- See atftpd's man page.
- --verbose
- Instruct atftp to be verbose. It will print more information about what's
going on.
- --trace
- This is useful for debugging purpose to display all packet going to and
from the network.
- -V, --version
- Print version.
- -h, --help
- Print a summary of command line arguments.
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Remi Lefebvre <remi@debian.org> and
Jean-Pierre Lefebvre <helix@step.polymtl.ca>.
