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Re: tech proposal to make manoj somewhat happy.



On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Jules Bean wrote:

> > > >  2) There is no firewall support
> > > 
> > > What kind of firewall has a problem with passive ftp?
> > > 
> > > I'm really curious about this one.
> > 
> > Any sort of proxy firewall. http firewalls -amazingly- well, ftp is just
> > terribly hard :<
> 
> I'm a bit confused.  FTP (in passive mode) works fine here, on my ipfwadm
> proxy firewall...

ipfwadm is not a proxy firewall it is a NAT firewall, that's why passive
mode works. You can also make ftp work without passive mode if you install
the masq ftp module.

Jason


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