Update, September 5, 2005: A great Tiger-compatible application that makes all of this TFTP stuff easier has been released. I strongly recommend it if you have any need for TFTP. The rest of this article may still contain interesting information for the more technical among us.
As the networking infrastructure guy, I occasionally have the need to update hardware or backup settings using the TFTP protocol. I’ve noticed that there are plenty of good instructions for how to make this work with Panther, but almost none for Tiger. Tweaking TFTP in Panther required editing a file in /etc/xinetd.d/ that no longer exists in Tiger since xinetd has been deprecated in favor of launchd. No worries, however, because you can make TFTP work in Tiger, it’s just that the steps to get there are a bit different. It requires use of the Terminal, but you’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and… we’ll leave it at that.
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