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FTP stands up for File Transfer Protocol, which is a protocol specialized for transfering (uploading and downloading) files. It uses port 20 which is for FTP data and 21 which is for FTP control. It works on layer 4 which is the Transport Layer of OSI Layers, layers of how networking can be establish and it’s working on Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), so its file can be receive as one piece of file as it sent because of TCP’s characteristics, connection-oriented, guarantees it.

For its use, at least there are two computers connected to the network, one act as FTP Server and the other one as FTP Client. For FTP Server you can use one of this Server, inorderly: ProFTPd, PureFTPd, VSFTPd or WU-FTPd . And for the clients, they don’t need anything actually, they already have the basic tools, the Command Line Interface (CLI) which is already included in your operating system. But the use of CLI should take time for regular users to get used to it. To prevent wasting time to learn the CLI, the regular users can use the FTP Clients application. You can select one of this, inorderly: KBear, gFTP, Kasablanca, DPS-FTP or FTPCube . One thing for sure I should mention that the applications above are especially for Operating System GNU/Linux.

So, happy transferring file over the net!