From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 28 5:17:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rambo.simx.org (rambo.simx.org [194.17.208.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 348D937B417 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 05:17:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from rambo.simx.org (malin.twenty4help.se [195.67.108.195]) by rambo.simx.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBSDGiC12730; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 14:16:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Message-ID: <3C2C70B9.5020602@rambo.simx.org> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 14:16:41 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Reynolds Cc: "darryl@osborne-ind.com" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: ftp & FreeBSD firewall References: <200112281238.fBSCcBC12375@rambo.simx.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Reynolds wrote: >[snip] > >i dont know about ws_ftp or msftp, but leapftp you just click pasv. my >guess is that a rule for your firewall is off.. i think ftp sends data >back on port20 as well. that could be the problem > Correct me if Im wrong, it has been a while since I studied the FTP protocoll, but if the client uses passive, no data should be sent back at all. The server will open listening ports, and the client will connect to the server. The server should never have to contact the client. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message