Chapter 21

Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)

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CONTENTS
MESSAGES CONNECTION DATA TRANSFER UDP PORTS TFTP EXAMPLE TFTP OPTIONS SECURITY APPLICATIONS

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TFTP uses the services of UDP on the well-known port 69.

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21.1 MESSAGES

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Figure 21-1

Message categories

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Figure 21-2

RRQ Read request

Mode: netascii or octet

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Figure 21-3

WRQ Write request

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Figure 21-4

DATA format

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Figure 21-5

ACK format

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Figure 21-6

ERROR format

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21.2 CONNECTION

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Figure 21-7

Connection establishment

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21.3
DATA TRANSFER

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Figure 21-8

Sorcerers apprentice bug

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21.4
UDP PORTS

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Figure 21-9

UDP port numbers used by TFTP

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21.5
TFTP EXAMPLE

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Figure 21-10

TFTP example

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21.6 TFTP OPTIONS

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21.7
SECURITY

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Figure 21-11

TELNET with FTP for security

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21.8
APPLICATIONS

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Figure 21-12

Use of TFTP with BOOTP

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