From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 28 15:17:41 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 742C615353 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 15:17:35 -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 PAA21894; Fri, 28 May 1999 15:17:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990528151716.B20812@best.com> Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 15:17:16 -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> <19990528151355.A20812@best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990528151355.A20812@best.com>; from Jan B. Koum on Fri, May 28, 1999 at 03:13:55PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 03:13:55PM -0700, "Jan B. Koum " wrote: > 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 Never mind me. I go upgrade now ;) -- Yan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message