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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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preventing any eavesdroppers from reading your data. SSH has one other

trick up its sleeve: it can move files or any type of TCP/IP network traffic

through its secure connection. In networking parlance, this is called

tunneling, and it is the core of most secure versions of Internet technologies

such as SFTP (discussed next) and VPN, which I will discuss in more depth

later in the chapter.

EXAM TIP The CompTIA A+ 1002 exam tests your knowledge of a few

networking tools, such as Telnet, but only enough to let you support a

Network+ tech or network administrator. If you need to run Telnet or SSH,

you will get the details from a network administrator. Implementation of

Telnet and SSH falls well beyond CompTIA A+.

SFTP

Secure FTP is a network protocol for transferring files over an encrypted

SSH connection. You can (and should!) use SFTP for the same things you’d

use FTP for—but it is technically its own distinct protocol. The SFTP

protocol was written as an extension of SSH, so you can find SFTP client and

server support built into SSH software, such as the popular OpenSSH. In

Figure 21-36, I’m using SFTP to transfer a Web server log.

Figure 21-36 OpenSSH

Voice over IP

You can use Voice over IP (VoIP) to make voice calls over your computer

network. Why have two sets of wires, one for voice and one for data, going to

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