What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Can somebody explain what Passive mode is, so maybe I can understand my way out of this? El Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 05:09:42PM -0300, Martin Marconcini dijo: -| 1) Indeed you can't do it on Internet Explorer as far as I know. -| 2) I believe that no matter which client you will be using, if you

RE: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Martin Marconcini
and the | ugly..) -Original Message- From: Daniel de los Reyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 5:14 PM To: Martin Marconcini Cc: Lista de Debian-User Subject: What is Passive mode anyway? Can somebody explain what Passive mode

Re: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Norman Schmidt
Hi Daniel! Passive mode means that the server behaves passively. Traffic to an ftp server works as follows: Client (Port 1024-65535) initiates a connection to Server (usually port 21, but cinfigurable) Now: active: Server opens a data connection (backwards) from Port 20 to client (1024-65535)

Re: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Eric Richardson
Daniel de los Reyes wrote: Can somebody explain what Passive mode is, so maybe I can understand my way out of this? ftp is bidirectional in that you go out on one port(21) and then the server communicates back on another port(23 I think). Passive mode means that it it a one port operation

RE: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Subject: Re: What is Passive mode anyway? Daniel de los Reyes wrote: Can somebody explain what Passive mode is, so maybe I can understand my way out of this? ftp is bidirectional in that you go out on one port(21) and then the server communicates back on another port(23 I think). Passive mode

Re: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
So, may I ask a related question? I am trying to use ssh on a DSL-connected system, and apparently encountered similar problems. That is, rp-ppoe (or firewall) does not allow incoming connection. How do I use ssh? Is there a way to get around this problem using a similar approach such as

Re: What is Passive mode anyway?

2001-03-12 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:39:34PM -0500, Holp, John Mr. wrote: Some refinement; port 20 is ftp data port 21 is ftp port 23 is telnet And even more refinement FTP supports two basic modes, 'passive' and 'active'. It's also UGLY as hell.