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Re: [SLE] Secure FTP?
  • From: Jorge Fábregas <fabregasj@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 00:13:09 -0400
  • Message-id: <200509070013.09103.fabregasj@xxxxxxxx>
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:04 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> As an earlier respondent stated, TFTP is used to boot diskless
> workstations and other hardware with no internal mass storage. Routers,
> e.g., are specialized but still sophisticated computers and they embody
> considerable internal configuration information that governs their
> operation. This information has to come from somewhere, and it is
> supplied via TFTP (from some centralized configuration management host)
> when those devices reboot and initialize themselves.

Thanks Randall for the explanation!

Jorge


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