RFC 2347 · DRAFT STANDARD · 1998
TUE · 15 SEP 2026
TFTP Option Extension
Overview
RFC 2347, “TFTP Option Extension”, is a Draft Standard document published in May 1998 by G. Malkin, A. Harkin. It updates RFC 1350. It obsoletes RFC 1782. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
The Trivial File Transfer Protocol is a simple, lock-step, file transfer protocol which allows a client to get or put a file onto a remote host. This document describes a simple extension to TFTP to allow option negotiation prior to the file transfer. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
What “Draft Standard” means
A historical maturity level (retired in 2011) that sat between Proposed Standard and Internet Standard and required multiple interoperable implementations.
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Relationships to other RFCs
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- RFC 2346 Making Postscript and PDF International
- RFC 2348 TFTP Blocksize Option
- RFC 2345 Domain Names and Company Name Retrieval
- RFC 2349 TFTP Timeout Interval and Transfer Size Options
- RFC 2344 Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP
- RFC 2350 Expectations for Computer Security Incident Response
- RFC 2343 RTP Payload Format for Bundled MPEG
- RFC 2351 Mapping of Airline Reservation, Ticketing, and Messaging Traffic over IP