The TFTP protocol is a standard protocol with STD number 33. TFTP is an extremely simple protocol to transfer files. Verbose toggle verbose mode, which displays additional information during file transfer, on or off Quit exit TFTP For a full list of these commands, see the user's guide of your particular TFTP implementation.
Any transfer begins with a request to read or write a file.
Blocks of the file are numbered consecutively, starting at 1. Each data packet must be acknowledged by an acknowledgment packet before the next one can be sent. Termination of the transfer is assumed on a data packet of less than 512 bytes. There was a serious bug, known as the Sorcerer's Apprentice Syndrome, in RFC 783. It may cause excessive retransmission by both sides in some network delay scenarios.