On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:43 PM, David Rees <dree...@gmail.com> wrote: > I recently upgraded a site to 1.2.1 and had some problems with inbound > FTP afterwards. > > In doing my troubleshooting, I noticed that the pftpx daemon never > starts on the WAN interface - regardless if the "Disable FTP Helper" > setting. > > I looked at the system_start_ftp_helpers function in > /etc/inc/config.inc, but it doesn't seem to add the WAN interface to > the array it uses to start the daemons. So the question is - should > the FTP helper run on the WAN interface, or does it not run on the WAN > interface by design? >
It's done in filter.inc for WAN interfaces, what you're looking at there is for outbound client FTP rather than inbound server. If you have a port forward for TCP 21 it will automatically launch the helper if it is enabled on that WAN. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
