pftp allows you to send and receive files and directories recursively, send and receive standard input and ouput, filter your connection, set the net buffer size, set the bandwidth, send UDP datagrams unicasted, broadcasted, and multicasted (which is meant for AUDIO and VIDEO streaming), send data to another user and manage that data, perform a network test based on either UDP or TCP, and use optimized buffers for your Gigabit Ethernet links. pftp can start from command line, as a daemon, or by inetd. All features are supported for IPv4 and IPv6.
| Tags | Communications File Sharing Desktop Environment File Managers education Testing Networking |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Windows Windows POSIX AIX BSD FreeBSD NetBSD HP-UX IRIX Linux Solaris Other |
Recent releases


Release Notes: Several bugfixes have been made.


Release Notes: Adjustments were made to accomodate the newly developed KDE/Qt frontend, kpftp. No other changes were made, so this release is only of interest to users of the KDE frontend.


Release Notes: Some minor bugfixes, a new option for optimized file transfer over Gigabit Ethernet, and a port of pftp to NT 4.0 using the cygwin package.


Release Notes: Comprehensive bug fixes.


Release Notes: Found some time to introduce host specific variable settings and to add and improve several features.