Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:30:51 +0200 From: Gilles <gilles.ganault@free.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FTP server behind firewall? Message-ID: <hq9d04lrm3bocphdo0msfnh5pnfved0ar2@4ax.com>
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Hello We have FreeBSD server on our private LAN behind a NAT firewall on which I'd like to add an FTP server so that customers can send us stuff. Problem is, since customers might have a NAT firewall on their end, the client application must connect in passive mode... but this just moves the problem to our end, where the FTP server will open a random port for data... to which the client will fail connecting since our NAT firewall is keeping them out of our LAN :-/ Is there a way to keep our server in the private LAN and still provide a way for customers to upload data? Hard-code the socket number used by the FTP server for data? Use a different type of server? Thank you.
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