On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 01:11:15PM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:32:41 +0200 (CEST), Rickard Lind wrote: > >The typical example of why you would need a proxy is > >FTP: the client opens a "control" connection > >(typically on port 21) and sends an address and port > >to the server on which the server opens a "data" > >connection to send the file(s). A "mere" packet filter > >cannot handle this which I believe is why the Linux > >kernel has a FTP module to handle this. I'm not sure
Yes, the story of active and passive FTP. > This is correct. It works pretty well, I used to use the FTP IP masquerading > module for quite some time, and had only smallish problems. The module; is it for allowing active or passive FTP transfers? > This sounds like a great idea. I'm using a Debian box as a router and > firewall, and it would probably helped me much if such an option had existed. Yes, me too. :) Would anyone *like* to show me the necessary rules for both active and passive FTP transfers with ipchains? Thanks Sven -- Windows does *not* have bugs. It just develops random features.
