FTP

FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

The Various uses of of FTP are game servers, voice serves, internet hosts and other physical serves. Some of the Negative aspects to FTP are

• Passwords and File information are sent in clear text that can be read by others.
• there are multiple TCP/IP Connections used which means firewalls may need some logic and configuration changes to account for the connections.
• It is hard to filter active mode FTP traffic for clients by using firewalls because the client has to open an arbitrary port to receive the connection.

• FTP is a high latency protocal due to the number of commands to start a transfer.

Some positives.

• FTP uses multiple TCP connections which unlike SSH that is hard to tunnel over FTP sets up a new TCP connection at either end which will bypass the SSH connection.

FTP is a way of sharing files with out much variation between hosts and to promote file sharing.