From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 15:54: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCD7537B406 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:54:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 61555 invoked by uid 100); 26 Oct 2001 22:54:05 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15321.59789.345547.12684@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:54:05 -0500 To: xphilius@yahoo.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ipfw rules for FTP - passive vs. active In-Reply-To: <20011026175729.89251.qmail@web11808.mail.yahoo.com> References: <15320.17295.222857.730255@guru.mired.org> <20011026175729.89251.qmail@web11808.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 X Philius types: > Mike, > I've got a related question. I have a set of IPFW rules that work > pretty well. With the Mac and PC FTP clients I use, it works fine as > long as I force active mode. However, I have been having problems > accessing the server with terminal style FTP clients, either from other > *nix machines or from NT. I can connect fine, but as soon as I try to > 'put' or 'ls' it tries to switch to passive mode and just hangs. I > swear I have read the entire man pages for the FTP client that comes > with FreeBSD, and I know the -p flag forces passive mode, but how do > you force active mode? Thanks in advance. Try the "passive" command in the client to toggle the mode. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message