TFTP server protection with CBAC

I had an interesting debate with an engineer who wanted to use TFTP between a router and a server reachable through an outside interface. He realized that he needed to configure (application-level) TFTP packet inspection for router-generated traffic, but unfortunately Cisco IOS does not support this particular combination.

His query prompted me to read the TFTP RFC, which clearly documents that the data packets sent by the server are coming from a different UDP port number (thus the need for application-level inspection). The results of my tests are available in the TFTP server protection with Context-Based Access Control (CBAC) article.

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