Turned out to be very useful during a recent RMA maintenance window: sudo launchctl load -F /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist sudo launchctl start com.apple.tftpd The default tftp file path is /private/tftpboot. [Original source] You can stop it with: sudo launchctl unload -F /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist And, speaking of tftp – there are some interesting projects on GitHub: hooktftp, php-tftpserver and ptftpd.