A great feature that you would not expect to find in a simple TFTP tool. Once you launch the tool, it will immediately begin searching for all devices that support the Trivial File Transfer Protocol in your network. You don’t have to be a genius to complete Solarwind’s installation process. All these are minor but important restriction that ultimately make this tool a little more secure.
Also related, is the ability to limit the server process to download only, upload only or both. Of course, that will not prevent a determined person from spoofing their IP. It’s a technique where you can blacklist specific IPs that you don’t want accessing your data or whitelist only the intended receivers. Regardless, Solarwind tries to introduce a protection aspect to the process through its IP restriction feature. It’s common knowledge that security is not one of the TFTP server’s strong suit. Spoiler alert, you may not have to go past option number one. There are several of them but we will be looking at the 5 best.
So, now that you have an overview of what TFTP is and how it functions how about we look at some actual TFTP server tools that you can implement in your windows system.
It’s best you stick to transferring data only to the devices connected via LAN. Unfortunately, since TFTP transfers data through Datagram Protocol (UDP) it cannot be encrypted and we would therefore not advise it for communication across the internet. Some other use cases in which TFTP will be invaluable include saving and backing up network configuration files and booting PCs which lack internal storages through the BOOTP protocol. Any system administrator or engineer will confirm that the TFTP server is an essential tool that turns what would be an otherwise tedious affair of loading firmware into network devices such as routers and switches into just another routine task.
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