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FTP and TFTP

FTP and TFTP

From the course: Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) v1.1 (200-301) Cert Prep

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FTP and TFTP

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(theatrical music) - [Instructor] In the Cisco CCNA blueprint, Cisco tells us that they want us to know about a couple of file transfer protocols, FTP and TFTP. And in this video we're going to contrast FTP and TFTP. Then, we're going to demonstrate their use on a Cisco router. First, let's consider FTP. That stands for file transfer protocol and FTP does support authentication where we can provide a username and a password, and that way we can prove we are who we say we are before we're allowed to send a file to an FTP server or retrieve a file from that server. And the layer four transport protocol used by FTP is TCP. That's a reliable transport protocol. And we might want to make FTP even more secure than just providing authentication. Authentication is great, but it doesn't give us encryption. Meaning if somebody were to intercept our data, they might be able to interpret that data. So what we might do is turn to one of the variants of FTP that do support encryption. Let's compare…

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