Py3tftp

Py3tftp is an asynchronous TFTP server written in Python 3. It was written for the pure joy of working with Python 3 and implements RFC 1350 (except mail mode), RFC 2347 (options), RFC 2348 (blksize option), RFC 2349 (timeout, tsize), and RFC 7440 (windowsize) for RRQ. Additionally, it supports block number roll over, so files of any size can be transferred over.

While a toy project, it does adhere to enough of the standards to be useful in real life.

Some Py3k stuff it uses:

• asyncio - Transports and Protocols for networking.
• asyncio - Tasks for spinning up extra handlers.
• New unpacking methods - some sweet stuff right there (3.5+)
• Tracebacks attached to exceptions - woo!
• Strings are now bytes because all text is unicode

This project is in maintenance mode!

It is not actively developed, but it provides a solid minimum set of functionality and works on Python versions 3.5 though 3.9.

If you would like more functionality or if you find a bug, please open a PR :).

Installation

pip install py3tftp

Usage

Invoking pyt3tftp will start a server that will interact with the current working directory - it will read and write files from it so don't run it in a place with sensitive files!

TFTP has no security features, except for its simplicity:

• It won't overwrite files.
• Won't create non-existant directories.
• Cannot write outside of the directory it's running from.

usage: py3tftp [-h] [--host HOST] [-p PORT] [--ack-timeout ACK_TIMEOUT]
                   [--timeout TIMEOUT] [-l FILE_LOG] [-v] [--version]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --host HOST           IP of the interface the server will listen on.
                        Default: 0.0.0.0
  -p PORT, --port PORT  Port the server will listen on. Default: 9069. TFTP
                        standard-compliant port: 69 - requires superuser
                        privileges.
  --ack-timeout ACK_TIMEOUT
                        Timeout for each ACK of the lock-step. Default: 0.5.
  --timeout TIMEOUT     Timeout before the server gives up on a transfer and
                        closes the connection. Default: 3.
  -l FILE_LOG, --file-log FILE_LOG
                        Append output to log file.
  -v, --verbose         Enable debug-level logging.
  --version

Testing

I wrote some simple acceptance tests in tests/acceptance/*_test.py. The code is messy as it's meant to be thrown away.

# runs the server with python -m py3tftp
# runs unittests under tests/
# kills the server
./.travis/run.sh

Extending py3tftp

The way that this module works is that there's a subclass of BaseTFTPServerProtocol scheduled on the IO loop that listens for incoming TFTP requests and decides what kind of BaseTFTPProtocol to schedule on the IO loop to handle the incoming request.

The way this works in the default scenario is that TFTPServerProtocol listens to incoming requests. When a request comes in, it selects either the WRQProtocol or the RRQProtocol to create a task in the IO loop and passes the request to the selected protocol upon instantiation. From then on, the instantiated protocol handles all of the communication with the client and the TFTPServerProtocol goes back to listening for requests.

This amazing diagram illustrates the above process in the case of a RRQ request:

Extending py3tftp is as easy as:

• Subclassing BaseTFTPServerProtocol, mainly to implement the select_protocol method to select your custom protocol.
• Subclassing either RRQProtocol or WRQProtocol to implement your own logic (new options, file handling, etc.) for standard WRQ and RRQ requests, OR...
• Subclassing BaseTFTPProtocol to implement your own logic for a custom type of request.

Roadplan

(Note, this hasn't been updated in a few years)

• fix off-by-one blksize error ie. if you transfer a file 1000 bytes long and set blksize to 1000 bytes, the server won't ack it.
• Pull out file reader/writer from protocol classes.
• Add tsize from RFC 2349 (added by schrd).
• Add blksize, timeout, and tsize tests.
• Possibly implement RFCs 906 and 951 for fun!
• Refactor the code, get rid of some duplication, optimize some low-hanging fruit.

LICENSE

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016-2021 sirMackk

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