How to increase TFTP time out ?

[Arunvijai.S]

Hello All,

I am getting this below message while trying to install 11.11 OS.

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* Reading configuration information from server...


* tftp error log follows:
tftp> tftp> tftp> tftp> tftp> Transfer timed out.
tftp> * tftp error log follows:

ERROR: Could not read /var/opt/ignite/INDEX from install tftp server.
NOTE: Retrying loadfile command...
tftp> tftp> tftp> tftp> tftp> Transfer timed out.
tftp>
ERROR: Could not read /var/opt/ignite/INDEX from install tftp server.
NOTE: Retrying loadfile command...
* tftp error log follows:
tftp> tftp> tftp> tftp> tftp> Transfer timed out.
* tftp error log follows:
tftp>
ERROR: Could not read /var/opt/ignite/INDEX from install tftp server.
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How to increase time out for TFTP server ?

Thanks,
Arun

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Arun,

tftpd settings can be changed on the ignite server in order to do that.

tftpd [-R retransmission-timeout] [-T total-transmission-timeout]

This can be altered in the /etc/inetd.conf file. To reinitialise that file you can use:
#inetd -c

HTH,

Gideon

[harry d brown jr]

How are you trying to install 11.11??

Does /var/opt/ignite/INDEX exist on your server? Is it readable by everyone?

What do your tftp logs on your server say?

live free or die
harry

[Arunvijai.S]

Hello All,

Thanks for your replies. I would like to know how to find out tftp log files. Please let me know the path to the log file.

Thanks,
Arun

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Arun,

that bwould be the syslog.

Gideon

[Arunvijai.S]

Hello,

I went through syslog (/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log) couldnt find anything useful. All i got is this,

Apr 28 17:08:15 chola inetd[672]: tftp/udp: Added service, server /usr/lbin/tftpd

After going thro manual, i find a way to enable logging to syslog using tftpd -l command. I hope this will work.

Thanks,
Arun

[Steven E. Protter]

Check the network setup instl_adm -d

You should not have to change the tftp timeout. Most or all versions of Ignite require boot and therefore tftp transfer on the built in lan card, not any add in card.

The transfer itself can be on any NIC after the initial boot.

Every time I had this problem it was due to networking issues.

You can monitor progress from the image server.

inetd -l # if enhanced logging is not enabled.

tail -f /var/log/syslog/syslog.log

SEP

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

This does not looks like something to do with tftp timeout.

Looks like what is happening is that you are trying to install a client in a subnet other than the subnet in which the ignite server is present and do not have a ignite helper to assisit you in doing this across different subnets.

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/faq.html#N10E84

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Arunvijai.S]

Hello all,

Just a basic question, How to start install client on same subnet ? i.e How to assign subnet parameters in the GSP Prompt?
Also, please notify the command to verify N/W parameters at GSP prompt.

Thanks,
Arnu