[2226] in linux-net channel archive
Re: FTP on PPP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sun Mar 24 13:36:05 1996
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: 100646.3100@compuserve.com (LAVAUX Yves)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:44:19 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <960323190848_100646.3100_BHL50-1@CompuServe.COM> from "LAVAUX Yves" at Mar 23, 96 02:08:49 pm
> I am a bit disappointed. When I want to use a standard ftp client, like ftp or
> xftp, on
> a machine on my network it begins connecting to remote host but, when I do the
> first "ls" or "cd", it begins waiting and never returns.
> However if I use netscape navigator ftp or if I use ftp on the PPP gateway
> (which has
> firewall masquerade option activated), it works without problems.
> I think it is a routing problem.
> All other clients seem to work (above all Netscape with WWW and ftp).
Your gateway sounds like it is running older masquerade code or seeing fragmented frames
(we dont handle those just at the moment, but Im waiting for some pieces of code to be
finished before I commit the fixes). Netscape works for the same reason as ncftp -P will
work - it uses passive mode.
Alan
