Re: ncftp vs. firewall?

2000-04-05 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 08:25:33AM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: [...] > In a passive mode the connection is initiated from the client and all > is well with the firewall. I know I have to set my ftp clients behind > the firewall to use passive only or I can't get it to work. > > Unless I am missin

Re: ncftp vs. firewall?

2000-04-05 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 04:44:31PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Try loading the ip_masq_ftp.o module. It takes care of the return > connection of an active FTP connection. > > modprobe ip_masq_ftp I'm pretty certain that I have, as FTP didnt work at all in the beginning (actually, this m

Re: ncftp vs. firewall?

2000-04-04 Thread Bret Hughes
Very cool thank you. I always wondered what that was for :) Bret "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > > At 03:41 PM 4/3/00 +0100, you wrote: > >Hi folks, > > > >I'm looking for some info with regard to ncftp and firewall. What happened > >was this: If for example I tried to connect to ftp.heanet.i

Re: ncftp vs. firewall?

2000-04-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 03:41 PM 4/3/00 +0100, you wrote: >Hi folks, > >I'm looking for some info with regard to ncftp and firewall. What happened >was this: If for example I tried to connect to ftp.heanet.ie with ncftp, I >get an error message "no route to host" and my firewall log showed this: > >Mar 28 22:40:21 mag

Re: ncftp vs. firewall?

2000-04-04 Thread Bret Hughes
Since no one responded I give it a try. I don't have any ised what port 0 is but if passive works it sound like that the firewall is (rightly so ) keeping the ftp server from establishing a connection to your machine. Under normal operation an ftp client contacts a server and tells it that is

ncftp vs. firewall?

2000-04-04 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
Hi folks, I'm looking for some info with regard to ncftp and firewall. What happened was this: If for example I tried to connect to ftp.heanet.ie with ncftp, I get an error message "no route to host" and my firewall log showed this: Mar 28 22:40:21 magrat kernel: IP fw-out rej ppp0 TCP MY_DYNAMI