Yes, it does. GXP2000's also use tftpd for provisioning across multiple
units.... Really irritating.
Steve
David L. Gehrt wrote:
> David L. Gehrt wrote:
>
>
>> here are two things here. Tftpd and ftpd daemons listen on different
>> ports and are different things altogether. More importantly tftp is
>> really insecure and should be avoided if possible. If avoiding it is
>> not possible access to the daemon should be restricted to the smallest
>> and most trustworthy set of client systems. Offhand I can think if no
>> real use for tftp. A long time ago we had to have a tftpd available to
>> allow Xterms to download their boot image it was worrisome.
>>
>>
> Offhand, I can think of at least one. Grandstream GXP2000 Voip phones do
> their firmware updates through tftp, and only tftp.
>
> Steve
>
Does that require users to run a tftpd server? If so, that is awful.
That company needs a security wake up. *SIGH* I had hoped that such
things were behind us.
dlg