ATFTP(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, this is the manual page for atftp, section 1 of the General Commands Manual — it's a TFTP client (RFC1350) and it's literally so useful 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

atftp [options] [host [port]]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so atftp can be used interactively or in batch mode to retrieve files from TFTP servers ✨ When you're using it interactively, you can get a lil summary of all the commands by typing help — iconic, honestly.

This TFTP client supports all the basic features from RFC1350, RFC2347, RFC2348 and RFC2349 🌈 It also supports the multicast implementation of RFC2090 and mtftp as defined in the PXE specification. no cap, it does a lot 👑

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

This program supports both the usual GNU command line syntax — long options starting with two dashes (--) — as well as short options 🫶 Some options are usable in batch mode only, meaning they have absolutely no meaning when atftp is used interactively. Here's the whole rundown, bestie:

• -g, --get — non interactive invocation only. Tells atftp to fetch a file from a tftp server 🍓
• --mget — non interactive invocation only. Used to fetch a file from an mtftp capable server.
• -p, --put — non interactive invocation only. Tells atftp to send a file to a tftp server 💌
• -P, --password — gives a password to the tftp server. This is a non-standard extension to the atftp client that's necessary for Linksys routers, and it shouldn't be used anywhere else 🙈
• -l, --local-file — non interactive invocation only. The client side (spelled "locat" in the original, typo and all, love that for us 💀) 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 the timeout of the client. Default is 5 seconds ⏰
• --option <"name value"> — sets 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 settings are:

--option "blksize disable"
--option "blksize 8"
--option "blksize 65464"
--option "timeout 1"
--option "tsize enable"
--option "tsize disable"
--option "windowsize disable"
--option "windowsize 4"
--option "multicast"

• --mtftp <"name value"> — sets mtftp possible options. Accepts the same options as the interactive mtftp command. For example, use: --mtftp "client-port 76" to configure the client side port to use 🔥
• --no-source-port-checking — see atftpd's man page 👀
• --prevent-sas — addresses the Sorcerer's Apprentice Syndrome situation as requested by RFC 1350. This RFC requires repeated responses to a single packet to be rejected. So a block will only get retransmitted on a timeout. For backward compatibility, the default stays to ignore this RFC — meaning blocks get transmitted on every request 🫠

not me explaining wizard-name syndrome in a tftp client manual but okay, that's literally what it's called 💅

• --verbose — tells atftp to be verbose. It will print more information about what's going on 📢
• --trace — useful for debugging purposes, to display all packets 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> 🌸 absolute icons, we stan.

and that's the whole thing, bestie 🫶 this page is from December 27, 2000 and it lives in ATFTP(1) — yes, the date is lowkey vintage but the drip is timeless ✨💖