FTP vs TFTP

Oprettet torsdag 18 juni 2020

TFTP vs. FTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol differs from FTP in these key respects:

Original versions of TFTP transferred files up to 32 MB in size. Some newer TFTP servers remove this restriction or might limit file size to 4 GB.
Unlike FTP, TFTP has no login feature, so it doesn't prompt for a username and password. Avoid using TFTP to share sensitive files — you can't protect these files or audit access to the files.
Listing, renaming, and deleting files over TFTP is usually not allowed.
TFTP uses UDP port 69 to establish network connections while FTP uses TCP ports 20 and 21.
Because TFTP is implemented using UDP, it generally works only on local area networks.

https://www.lifewire.com/definition-of-tftp-817576

FTP and TFTP both are the application layer protocols. Both are used to transfer a file from client to server or from the server to the client . But FTP is more complex than TFTP. There are many differences between FTP and TFTP, but the major difference between FTP and TFTP is that FTP establishes two connection for transferring a file between client and server that are TCP’s port 20 for data connection and TCP’s port 21 for the control connection.

On the other hand, TFTP uses the only single connection on UDP’s port 69 to transfer a file between client and server.
https://techdifferences.com/difference-between-ftp-and-tftp.html

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