From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 14 21:30:41 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26CAC16A420 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:30:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remko@FreeBSD.org) Received: from galain.elvandar.org (galain.elvandar.org [217.148.169.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D186E13C46B for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:30:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remko@FreeBSD.org) Received: from evilcoder.xs4all.nl ([195.64.94.120] helo=elvandar.local) by galain.elvandar.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1J3I7D-000CHa-QQ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:30:39 +0100 Message-ID: <4762F626.4080809@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:31:18 +0100 From: Remko Lodder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J.R. Oldroyd" References: <20071214153229.17383065@linwhf.opal.com> In-Reply-To: <20071214153229.17383065@linwhf.opal.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Max Laier , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deprecate ftp-proxy in favor of ftp/pftpx X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:30:41 -0000 J.R. Oldroyd wrote: > The two main tools most users appear to use for FTP, viz ftp > and firefox, do not work well with ftp-proxy any more. While > ftp can be configured to work, firefox cannot. The problem is > that ftp-proxy only supports active mode connections and firefox > only supports passive ones. Ftp, itself, defaults to passive > (or even epsv4) and has to be configured to default to active. > > The port ftp/pftpx is an alternate FTP proxy which handles > passive and epsv4 just fine. > > Is it time to deprecate ftp-proxy and elevate ftp/pftpx to the > base system and recommend its use instead? > > -jr > I am a bit sceptical against this because ftp-proxy is a tool derived from OpenBSD ( afair ) and it works very well together with PF and things like that. Max: Your thoughts? :) -- /"\ Best regards, | remko@FreeBSD.org \ / Remko Lodder | remko@EFnet X http://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News