TFTP help

[Jason]

I need to use TFTP, but how do I use it?

I know I can run TFTP froma cmd line, but do I need to have a service
running on my PC, or on the PC I want to put/get a file to/from ?

How do I install this service? Is it part of Win XP Pro?

Thanks

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Jason" <[email protected]>

| I need to use TFTP, but how do I use it?
|
| I know I can run TFTP froma cmd line, but do I need to have a service
| running on my PC, or on the PC I want to put/get a file to/from ?
|
| How do I install this service? Is it part of Win XP Pro?
|
| Thanks
|

TFTP is Trivial File Transfer Protocol and uses UDP so it is a conectionless protion with no
authentication. How you use TFTP will epend upon the purpose. TFTP is often used to update
BIOS or images of TCP/IP compliant hardware sch as Routers and managed Ethernet Switches.

A SOHO Router may initiate a TFTP get from the POV of a web page or you may use a TFTP
client to perform TFTP put to upload the BIOS or image.

While TFTP.EXE is a client file in some Win32 OS', it has to be placed into perspective of
teh functionality.

For example, I use a BootP-TFTP client to assign an IP address and configuration file to HP
JetDirect Print Servers based upon the MAC address of said JetDirect Print Server.