When accessing netkit-tftp on a virtual IP on the server it always give this error: tftpd[8316]: tftpd: trying to get file: Can't assign requested address When using the physical address of the server all goes well.
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Patric, thank you for report. But it seems to me that this is expected result. See man page for tftpd: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Unfortunately, on multi-homed systems, it is impossible for tftpd to determine the address on which a packet was received. As a result, tftpd uses two different mechanisms to guess the best source address to use for replies. If the socket that inetd(8) passed to tftpd is bound to a particular address, tftpd uses that address for replies. Otherwise, tftpd uses ``UDP connect'' to let the kernel choose the reply address based on the destination of the replies and the routing tables. This means that most setups will work transparently, while in cases where the reply address must be fixed, the virtual hosting feature of inetd(8) can be used to ensure that replies go out from the correct address. These considerations are important, because most tftp clients will reject reply packets that appear to come from an unexpected address. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ And that means that virtual ip addresses also do not work (as they were never took into account). net-ftp/netkit-tftp provides very simple implementation of tftpd server and if you want something more advanced use net-ftp/tftp-hpa. resolving as UPSTREAM as I think that this is bad idea for gentoo to support patches for things like that providing that we have alternative servers.
