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Re: IP Masquerading: No good for FTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Anders Oygard)
Mon Sep 30 04:43:58 1996
To: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Karl Anders Oygard <Karl.Oygard@kjeller.fou.telenor.no>
Date: 30 Sep 1996 00:03:45 +0200
In-Reply-To: Jos Vos's message of Sun, 29 Sep 1996 11:27:12 +0000
[Jos Vos]
| 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.
I was merely pointing out that the reason FTP is hard to masquerate, is
related to the FTP protocol itself. Myself, I run masquerading with th=
e
ip_masq_ftp module and haven't experienced a single ftp stall since I
installed the latest ftp keep alive patches.
Thanks,
Karl Anders =D8ygard