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Re: IP Masquerading: No good for FTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RHS Linux User)
Mon Sep 30 03:37:53 1996
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 10:45:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: RHS Linux User <ggoebel@ggoebel.sound.net>
To: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
cc: Karl Anders Oygard <Karl.Oygard@kjeller.fou.telenor.no>,
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609291126.MAA03952@minnie.xos.nl>
Actually, Masquerading FTP didn't start working until at John Hamilton's
suggestion I compilied with transparent proxy enabled.
Thank you all for all of your help.
Garrett Goebel
> > Not sure if I got all that right, but this is all described in various RFC,
> > but what I suggest you do is that you use passive ftp instead. Passive ftp
> > uses one and only one connection during the whole session, and does not
> > require a reverse connection.
>
> No, you're not right. You described the problem, but you don't seem to
> know that there is (since long) a solution: the ip_masq_ftp module, that
> you need to load to make active FTP working.
>
> -- Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
