FTP without username and password

[Grant Edwards]

On 2022-12-07, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> It's a whole different protocol. TFTP is simplified to the point it
> will fit on embedded devices which don't need security (the
> assumption being that one has the embedded device physically
> present, FTP assumes distributed networks).

One of the big differences is that FTP uses a pair of TCP connections
(a control connection and a data connection) while TFTP uses UDP.  UDP
is far, far simpler to implement than TCP. Things like bootloaders for
embedded systems often support UDP but don't implement TCP at all.

--
Grant