Re: FTP tunneling query
On Wednesday 07 October 2009 11:29:48 Matt Johnston wrote: Hi, Dropbear doesn't know anything particular about FTP. I suspect that forwarding FTP through dropbear (or any other SSH server) won't work very well, given they dynamic port allocation. Perhaps OpenSSH client with socks forwarding might work? Actually ftp has a passive mode that's often the default these days that uses the existing connection rather than dialing back the other way (which was an insane design to begin with and gives masquerading routers hives). When it isn't typing passive generally enables it. And there's an sftp program stock in ubuntu, which seems to go through ssh the way scp does but I dunno much more about it. (I just use scp.) Rob -- Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds
Re: FTP tunneling query
Hi, Dropbear doesn't know anything particular about FTP. I suspect that forwarding FTP through dropbear (or any other SSH server) won't work very well, given they dynamic port allocation. Perhaps OpenSSH client with socks forwarding might work? Cheers, Matt On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 06:05:08PM +0530, Sourav Chakraborty wrote: Hello List, Does the ssh client send explicit forward requests for the FTP tunneling control as well as the data connections or does the SSH server snoop the FTP packets and forwards the data channels automatically? Rgds Sourav
