Linux Terminal Server Essay

[Steve Meyers]

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 10:53, Andy Bradford wrote:
> > TFTP  is a  higher level  protocol than  TCP --  they're not 
directly
> > comparable. In fact, TFTP  runs over TCP. So you get  all of the
error
> > correction of TCP when you use TFTP.
> 
> [andyb at laptop:fangorn andyb]$ grep tftp /etc/services 
> tftp            69/udp
> 
> Hmm, looks like UDP to me. :-)

[steve at penguin steve]$ fgrep tftp /etc/services
tftp            69/tcp
tftp            69/udp
tftp-mcast      1758/tcp
tftp-mcast      1758/udp

However, upon looking into it more, you're right.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1350.html

I guess I should do a little research next time before opening my mouth,
eh? :)  It seems kind of silly that it is built on UDP though, I'm not
sure why they limited it by using UDP.  I don't see any great benefits
it gets from using UDP over TCP, especially since it apparently tries to
implement some of the features of TCP.

Steve