From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 18 03:37:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7FCD16A41F for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:37:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rperry@gti.net) Received: from apollo.gti.net (apollo.gti.net [199.171.27.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620AC43D45 for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:37:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rperry@gti.net) Received: from homey.my.domain (morr0646.gti.net [208.216.122.46]) by apollo.gti.net (mail) with ESMTP id 467BB36322 for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:35:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob Perry To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:37:45 -0400 Message-Id: <1127014665.1597.21.camel@homey.my.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Examples of IPFtest? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:37:57 -0000 Recently set up a firewall using ipf and apparently ran into a problem with FTP sites. Received error, "No route to host" while fetching files located on ftp sites during portupgrade and also was unable to open the FreeBSD FTP Server (550 Could not accept passive data connection-timed out.) Had no problem once I disabled the firewall. I noticed there was a test utility called ipftest available but the man page didn't help me understand how it functions. Has anyone utilized this utility? Is there a site that is more informative than the man page? In the mean time, I do remember scanning an article on active FTP vs passive FTP which may be a good "next step" given the browser error message 550. Thanks, Bob Perry