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Re: IP Masquerading: No good for FTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Urlichs)
Mon Sep 30 01:55:51 1996
From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:49:05 +0100
In linux.dev.net, article <uju20fmpkr8.fsf@dina.nta.no>,
Karl Anders Oygard <Karl.Oygard@kjeller.fou.telenor.no> writes:
>=20
> Not sure if I got all that right, but this is all described in variou=
s RFC,
> but what I suggest you do is that you use passive ftp instead. Passi=
ve ftp
> uses one and only one connection during the whole session, and does n=
ot
> require a reverse connection.
>=20
Not so. Passive mode uses a new data connection for each file, just lik=
e
regular FTp sessions do. The only difference is that the server is pass=
ive,
i.e. it waits for the data connection from the client instead of attemp=
ting
to set one up by itself.
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