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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

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