From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 12 17:32:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F83616A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:32:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F022E43D39 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:32:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i7CHVgI7054140; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:31:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:31:42 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Atuboyedia Christiana Message-ID: <20040812173142.GC4198@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: enabling tftp port 69 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:32:01 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 12), Atuboyedia Christiana said: > I have a question that needs to be answered very quickly. I have > enabled the use to tftp on my IBM T40 FreeBSD machine. However, when > I use nmap to look scan the ports and to tell me what ports are open, > port 69 is not on that list. However, I am able to tftp between two > computers. Can someone tell me what is going on here and what I can > do to enable port 69? Thank you. tftp uses UDP sockets, and nmap does a TCP scan by default. Use the -sU flag will tell nmap to scan UDP ports. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com