It designed to allow network administrators and users to save and write files from various network equipment, and allow users to login to the server to execute various commands, such as listing file and directory information, reverse ping network equipment. Pumpkin comes in a light package of a file size as large as your wallpaper.Quick Tftp Server Pro is a multi-threaded tftp server and telnet server for Windows. TFTP, unlike FTP, can be employed where user authentication and directory visibility are not required.Ĭurrently, Pumpkin TFTP is free and open-source for everyone to use and edit, with its creator daring all to "punish" it as much as they want and make it better. This is unlike FTP that is mainly used for serving downloadable files or retrieving files from other FTP servers around the world, basically meaning general purpose data exchange.Īnother explanation of TFTP is that it is an Internet software utility that is used to transfers files in a much simpler way as compared to FTP. TFTP is used mainly to transfer files to and from network hardware(such as a router, hub, switch, backup and restore options) as long as the networking equipment supports TFTP. Pumpkin is a TFTP server as well as a TFTP client, and they function on different protocols.
Allows unlimited simultaneous transfers between a TFTP client and the TFTP serverĪn important thing to know is that Pumpkin is not an FTP(File Transfer Protocol) server, nor is it an FTP client.
Most of these features are currently found only on Windows. Pumpkin is also useful for transferring files between parties over a talk connection for conversation. The primary use of Pumpkin is for the maintenance of networking equipment such as a router firmware upgrade that uses a TFTP server to fetch images.
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