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Manual Reference Pages  - ATFTP (1)

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atftp - TFTP client (RFC1350).

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atftp [options] [host [port]]

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 feature from RFC1350, RFC2347, RFC2348 and RFC2349. It also support multicast implementation of RFC2090 and mtftp as defined in the PXE specification.

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 included below.

-g, --get	Non interactive invocation only. Instruct atftp to get file.
--mget	Non interactive invocation only. Used to get file from a mtftp capable server.
-p, --put	Non interactive invocation only. Instruct atftp to put file.
-l, --local-file
	Non interactive invocation only. The client side 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 file name to get or put. Must be used in conjunction with --get or --put.
--tftp-timeout <value>
	Number of seconds for timeout, client side. Default is 5 seconds.
--option < name value >
	Set option "name" to "value". This command support exactly the same arguments as the interactive one. For example, use: --option blksize 1428 to configure block size.
--mtftp < name value >
	Set mtftp possible options. Accept 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.

This manual page was written by Remi Lefebvre <remi@debian.org> and Jean-Pierre Lefebvre <helix@step.polymtl.ca>.
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