From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 19 15:57:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vail.net (vail.net [199.45.148.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB2937BD73 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:57:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ivanfetch@technologist.com) Received: from gatekeeper.cfcc.com (cfcc.com [204.144.216.251]) by vail.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA13743; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 16:53:08 -0700 (MST) Received: from ibis.ivanfetch.tzo.com (206.133.170.156 [206.133.170.156]) by gatekeeper.cfcc.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.1960.3) id FB03WKC4; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 17:02:06 -0700 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 16:56:20 -0700 (MST) From: Ivan Fetch X-Sender: ifetch@ibis.ivanfetch.tzo.com To: cjclark@home.com Cc: dc , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redirecting/mapping ports to a local machine... help! In-Reply-To: <20000219180014.B60348@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Although I have not had extensive use over a redirected FTP port, I have transfered a file or two and it has workked. I think the use of port 20 (which is what I assume you are refering to below) is only used in certain kinds of transfers; certain FTP clients . Ivan. On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 11:15:32AM -0700, Ivan Fetch wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, dc wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > i've got 2 computers, 1 on freebsd, the other on windows. They are > > > sharing the net using natd. But i got a ftp server on port 42 of my > > > windows box, and i want to make it available from the outside... i tried > > > to do it with "redirect_port", here goes my natd.conf file: > > > > > > > > > ### Configuration file for Natd > > > > > > alias_address 24.226.185.143 > > > redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.2:42 42 > > > redirect_port udp 192.168.0.2:42 42 > > > > > > ### End > > > > > > > > > then i launched "natd -conf /etc/natd.conf", both computers were sharing > > > the net as before, though i couldn't access the ftp server from the > > > outside. > > > > > > I can connect to the ftp server from the bsd box using the local ip > > > (19.168.0.2).... > > > > Hello, > > Your Windows FTP server does work on port 42: > > ftp your_Internet_IP 42 > > > > Connected to u-serv FTP... > > > > I am not sure if this is why things were not working when you tedted them, > > but testing your ftp connection from inside your LAN (192.168.X.X) will > > not work. Maybe telnet to another machine on the Internet and then try > > FTPing back to your FreeBSD box for testing purposes. > > Doing FTP over a NAT box is problematic due to the two-channel nature > of FTP. As far as I know, NAT cannot fully support the FTP protocol. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message