TFTP client

Overview

Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a simple lockstep File Transfer Protocol based on UDP, and is designed to get a file from or put a file onto a remote host.

This TFTP client sample application for Zephyr implements the TFTP client library and establishes a connection to a TFTP server on standard port 69.

The source code for this sample application can be found at: samples/net/tftp_client.

Requirements

Networking with QEMU Ethernet, Networking with QEMU or Networking with native_sim board
Linux machine

Building and Running

There are configuration files for various setups in the samples/net/tftp_client directory:

prj.conf This is the standard default config.

Build the tftp-client sample application like this:

west build -b <board to use> samples/net/tftp_client -- -DCONF_FILE=<config file to use>

The easiest way to setup this sample application is to build and run it as a native_sim application or as a QEMU target using the default configuration prj.conf. This requires a small amount of setup described in Networking with QEMU Ethernet, Networking with QEMU and Networking with native_sim board.

Build the tftp-client sample application for native_sim like this:

west build -b native_sim samples/net/tftp_client
west build -t run

Download and run a TFTP server (like TFTPd), then create file1.bin (with data) and newfile.bin.

Please note that default IP server address is 192.0.2.2 and default port is 69. To specify an IP server address and/or port, change these configurations in prj.conf:

CONFIG_TFTP_APP_SERVER="10.0.0.10"
CONFIG_TFTP_APP_PORT="70"

To connect to server using hostname, enable DNS resolver by changing these two configurations in prj.conf:

CONFIG_DNS_RESOLVER=y
CONFIG_TFTP_APP_SERVER="my-tftp-server.org"

Sample output

This sample can be run on native_sim while running a TFTP server on the host machine.

Launch net-setup.sh in net-tools:

net-setup.sh

<inf> net_config: Initializing network
<inf> net_config: IPv4 address: 192.0.2.1
<inf> net_tftp_client_app: Run TFTP client
<inf> net_tftp_client_app: Received data:
        74 65 73 74 74 66 74 70  66 6f 72 7a 65 70 68 79 |testtftp forzephy
        72 0a                                            |r.
<inf> net_tftp_client_app: TFTP client get done
<inf> net_tftp_client_app: TFTP client put done