RFC 7440

TFTP Windowsize Option, January 2015

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Status:
PROPOSED STANDARD
Author:
P. Masotta
Stream:
IETF
Source:
NON WORKING GROUP

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7440

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Abstract

The "Trivial File Transfer Protocol" (RFC 1350) is a simple, lockstep, file transfer protocol that allows a client to get or put a file onto a remote host. One of its primary uses is in the early stages of nodes booting from a Local Area Network (LAN). TFTP has been used for this application because it is very simple to implement. The employment of a lockstep scheme limits throughput when used on a LAN.

This document describes a TFTP option that allows the client and server to negotiate a window size of consecutive blocks to send as an alternative for replacing the single-block lockstep schema. The TFTP option mechanism employed is described in "TFTP Option Extension" (RFC 2347).


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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