Enable TFTP verbose logging

Owned by Kelli Higdon
Last updated: Mar 22, 2024
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When troubleshooting phones, it is helpful to be able to see more detailed logging. Turning verbose logging on will show when a phone requests a file, allowing you to know the phone at least has working networking by that point.

  • Edit the tftp configuration file

vi /etc/xinetd.d/tftp

  • Add the "–verbose" startup option

...         ## Customization: add the "--verbose" command-line option to see when TFTP files are requested by clients to aid in troubleshooting         #server_args             = -s /tftpboot         server_args             = -s /tftpboot --verbose ...

  • Restart xinitd

service xinetd restart

You can grep for tftp in /var/log/messages, and see live tftp traffic with:

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