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Subject: Re: NATD:  Transparent ftp proxy
To: ru@ucb.crimea.ua (Ruslan Ermilov)
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:03:05 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: hans@artcom.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <19980424153203.A3156@ucb.crimea.ua> from Ruslan Ermilov at "Apr 24, 98 03:32:03 pm"
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In a previous message, Ruslan Ermilov said:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 02:20:11PM +0200, Hans Huebner wrote:
> > Hello there,
> > 
> > does anyone here know of a transparent ftp proxy for FreeBSD?  My users
> > keep pestering me about being unable to use 'active' ftp with our current
> > FreeBSD/natd configuration, and pointing me at Linux which has a
> > transparent ftp proxy built into the kernel (yuk).  I keep telling them
> > that they should use passive ftp and that active ftp stinks anyway, but
> > somehow I'm unable to convince them.
> > 
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Hans
> 
> Natd utilizes libalias - Packet Aliasing Library.
> 
> This library has special support for FTP data connections.
> To make it work you SHOULD set the ``use_sockets'' option to ``yes''.
> Please see natd(8) and libalias(3) for details on how FTP support works.


You could also look at delegated in packages.


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