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Date:      Sun, 3 Feb 2002 23:44:52 -0600
From:      Daniel Thill <thill@umr.edu>
To:        Hongbo Li <stevensbsd@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfilter problem in FreeBSD 4.5
Message-ID:  <20020203234452.A5246@umr.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020204050943.2930.qmail@web13404.mail.yahoo.com>; from stevensbsd@yahoo.com on Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:09:43PM -0800
References:  <20020204050943.2930.qmail@web13404.mail.yahoo.com>

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> I use a dual-homed FreeBSD box as firewall gateway,
> running FreeBSD 4.5 stable and ipfilter 3.4.20 . Every
> time I use a ftp client from a internal
> windows box to access a external ftp server, I can
> succesfully login in and do something. But when the
> ftp connection timeouts and I run the "ls" command
> over the connection, the gateway box(FreeBSD) hangs.

This is just a knee-jerk answer, but often with firewalls, you have to
use the passive mode setting in your ftp client.  Give that a try for
a quick fix.

-dan

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