Chapter 20

File Transfer
Protocol
(FTP)
McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
 FTP
 Although transferring files from one system to another
seems simple and straightforward.
 Before transferring, some problems must be dealt with
first, such as:
 two systems may use different file name conventions.
 Two systems may have different ways to represent text and
data.
 Two systems may have different directory structures.
 All of these problems have been solved by FTP in a very
simple and elegant approach.
McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
 File transfer

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

 File Transfer

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

 FTP

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

 Control connection

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
 20.1 Connections: The control connection

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

 Data Connection

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
 Creating
the data
connection

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

 Data Connection

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

 Communication

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
 Figure 20-4

20.2 Communication
Using the control connection

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

 NVT

FTP FTP

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
 Data Structure

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

 Figure 20-5

Using the data connection

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

 File Type

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

 Transmission Mode

 Stream mode
 Block mode
 Compressed mode

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

 Transmission Mode

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

 Command Processing

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

 20.3 Command processing

 Access Commands
 File Management
 Data Formatting
 Port defining
 File transfer
 Miscellaneous

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
 20.4 File transfer

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

 Figure 20-8
Example 1

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

 Figure 20-9
Example 2

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
 When can it be used?

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000

McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000