From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 28 5:19:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D61A14CCB for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 05:19:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with SMTP id OAA23457; Fri, 28 May 1999 14:19:09 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 14:19:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP passive mode - a new default? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "Jan B. Koum " writes: > > Yay! This is awesome. I guess in addition to ftp, the tools and > > libraries you talk about would also include fetch, and other firewall > > not so friendly things? (Would be nice if CVSup can fake FTP_PASSIVE_MODE > > by doing '-P -' too). > > CVSup uses multiplexed mode by default, which means it multiplexes its > various data channels over a single TCP connection. The server does > not (should not) attempt to connect back to the client. No. $ /usr/local/bin/cvsup /usr/src-supfile -g -L 2 ... Establishing active-mode data connection Timed out waiting for connection from server. Check your firewall setup or try the "-P m" option And it never gets there (firewall is 3 hops down the road). '-P m' does change the behaviour. Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message