TFTP Server works using the Trivial File Transfer Protocol, or TFTP, and helps network engineers perform such tasks as backing up configurations, changing community strings and running IOS updates.

My co-worker (network engineer) just moved from a Windows machine to a Mac for his work laptop. He's experiencing VERY slow uploads to routers/switches when applying new iOS upgrades to the Cisco gear ...

OS X includes a command-line "tftp" utility that I've used for flashing Linksys routers. Not sure if that's the same as a "TFTP server" though.

Since I seem to be feeling rather talkative today, I figured I'd post a bit on the latest little bit of geekery I committed this week. All noted configuration file examples can be downloaded from here ...