From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 28 15:14:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7CC714E7C for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 15:14:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@shell6.ba.best.com) Received: (from jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.sh) id PAA21334; Fri, 28 May 1999 15:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990528151355.A20812@best.com> Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 15:13:55 -0700 From: "Jan B. Koum " To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP passive mode - a new default? References: <16256.927715821@zippy.cdrom.com> <19990528020541.D8308@best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Fri, May 28, 1999 at 02:09:19PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 02:09:19PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "Jan B. Koum " writes: > > Yay! This is awesome. I guess in addition to ftp, the tools and > > libraries you talk about would also include fetch, and other firewall > > not so friendly things? (Would be nice if CVSup can fake FTP_PASSIVE_MODE > > by doing '-P -' too). > > CVSup uses multiplexed mode by default, which means it multiplexes its > various data channels over a single TCP connection. The server does > not (should not) attempt to connect back to the client. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no I know how CVSup works. If you are behind firewall, you need to use "-P -" command line switch. What I am saying, is that it would be nice if CVSup would use passive mode by default now also (like ftp/fetch will). -- Yan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message