Net::TFTPd module questions

I am writing a script that will log into my netowkr equipment and backup
the configurations to a TFTP server. Since I don't want the security
risk of a TFTP server running all the time, I want to create a TFTP
server when the script starts and destroy it when I am done. My problem
is that the Net::TFTPd module does not seem to process any of the
requests. Issuing a "netstat -a" does show a socket created on port 69,
but nothing else. The script times out and dies. Is that module
comptible with current versions of perl, since it was written for perl
5.006?

Has anyone else done this or had experience trying to do this?
Suggestions or actual code would be helpful and appreciated.

Thanks,

Chris G.