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Re: IP Masquerading: No good for FTP?u
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RHS Linux User)
Mon Sep 30 02:37:05 1996
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:04:22 -0500 (CDT)
From: RHS Linux User <ggoebel@ggoebel.sound.net>
To: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609291551.QAA04436@minnie.xos.nl>
On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, Jos Vos wrote:
> > Actually, Masquerading FTP didn't start working until at John Hamilton's
> > suggestion I compilied with transparent proxy enabled.
>
> Nice, but this really shouldn't have anything to do with each other.
> Or did you also specify CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG together with
> IP transparent proxy?
>
> --
> -- Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
I was already using CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG, so yes... I was using it with
IP transparent proxy. How does that combination get around ftp hanging
where the ip_masq-ftp module does not? This avoids the whole issue of
timeouts? What are the tradeoffs between increasing the timeout and using
transparent proxy with always defrag?
Garrett
