> Hooked up my pda to the dmz subnet with a tftp client, I can 
> successfully 
> pull the firmware file across the subnets, so I know the tftp 
> traffic can 
> flow between subnets, so that's not the issue.

> >From reading the relevant rfc's, it looks like a unicast packet
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1350
> 
> 
> Well, there is no traffic that I see from the packet sniffer 
> built into the router

The RFC covers actual tftp protocol but has nothing to do with whatever
discovery routines and traffic the mvpmc may use to find the tftp
server.  If you're not seeing any traffic from the mvpmc in the DMZ to
your tftpd server at all, but you can use another device on the DMZ with
tftp client to pull files from your tftpd server, and you have the
next-server option (hopefully with filename and root-path options) set
correctly (backed up by tftp-server-name option), then the most likely
cause is that the mvpmc is ignoring next-server and tftp-server-name
options and using broadcast (or otherwise unrouted or blocked) traffic
to discover the tftpd server.  Are you seeing any traffic on udp 16869
(emanating from the mvpmc)?

If you can disconfirm that, I'd start looking at putting a dhcp server
on the dmz subnet so you can eliminate all dhcp functions as possible
causes.

> No tftp traffic though :-( and no connection to the tftp 
> server which is at 
> 10.11.12.14, which shows up as nothing in the tftp server logs.
> 
> All the devices I have here are switches, as I got rid of the 
> last hub I had 
> a few months back which complicates sniffing :-(

That's why I keep one old 10bT hub around.  That thing is slow as a dog
but super handy for sniffing where switches have no admin ports.

Andy



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