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What is limiting factor in the time required to transfer a file using TFTP?

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December 13, 2010 6:00PM

TFTP can transfer a maximum of 512 bytes per client server round trip with its stop and wait protocol.

Maximum throughput of TFTP = 512 bytes/ round trip time(client-server)

We assume for the Ethernet, the Round trip time = 3 ms

The maximum throughput is around 170,000 bytes/sec