From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 18: 1:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yoonax.net (c3213-a.tcma1.wa.home.com [24.5.78.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B0837B578 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:01:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cpm@yoonax.net) Received: from xterminus (host12.yoonax.net [10.0.0.12] (may be forged)) by yoonax.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA58045 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:01:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cpm@yoonax.net) From: "Charles Mauch" To: Subject: RE: Having a Problem with NAT and FTP Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:00:54 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200003021804.e22I4ME18212@fedde.littleton.co.us> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > "Richard" writes: > +--------------- > | Thank you. Your answer makes sense. Funny thing though, I had a LINUX > | Box before the FreeBSD firewall and LINUX's masquerading was able to do > | it. I guess, there are advantages and disadvantages to every OS. > | > | Thanks > +--------------- > > The common FTP client on many linux distros uses PASV by default. > Because of the longer legacy for FreeBSD, its default FTP client > uses the older mode of operation. > > We could discuss the relative merit of each default choice. My opinion is > that PASV is a better default for the modern internet since it > enables more > systems and most modern servers support it. A trick I learned a while back was setting the evironment variable FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=1 . Most ftp clients see it and adapt accordingly. I had a couple of FreeBSD boxes behind a firewall a while back and it was the easiest way to get stuff in the ports collection to 'make' ;) Charles / cpm@yoonax.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message