Which protocol does TFTP use while working on the network?

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• Prajakta Pandit   -Posted on 19 Oct 15
  
  - Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a simple, lock-step, file transfer protocol which allows a client to get from or put a file onto a remote host.
  
  - TFTP uses UDP as its transport protocol.
  
  - A transfer request is always initiated targeting port 69 but the data transfer ports are chosen independently by the sender and receiver during the transfer initialization.
  
  - The ports are chosen at random according to the parameters of the networking stack.
  
  Importance of TFTP :
  
  - TFTP utilizes UDP, it has to supply its own transport and session support.
  
  - Each file transferred via TFTP constitutes an Independent exchange.
  
  - TFTP provides low throughput specially over high latency links.
  
  - TFTP was designed to be small and easy to implement and therefore it lacks most of the advanced features offered by more robust file transfer protocol.
  
  - It cannot list, delete or rename files or directories and it has no provisions for user authentication.
  

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