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Re: FTP thro' firewall



I highly recommend the rcf firewall which can be found at
http://rcf.mvlan.net

> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Michael Wood wrote:
> 
> > I don't know what "Mandrake SNF" is
> 
> Mandrakesoft's Single Network Firewall -- a pre-built template for an
> ipchains rules firewall, controlled by a web browser + PHP interface.
> $99 with snappy 412 pp manual; or whatever it costs you to download and
> burn your own ISO -- _sans_ manual.
> The one I'm using was built from a downloaded CD image.
> 
> > but if you can install a
> > 2.4 kernel on it, you could use iptables instead of ipchains.
> > This means you can use the stateful inspection features to allow
> > active and passive FTP through the firewall.
> 
> Maybe; but at that point you're almost certainly better off
> controlling the firewall via CLI anyway.
> 
> > The other option is to install an ftp proxy
> 
>  ... thanks for the useful info.
> I may try this when I've got time to play.  <sigh>
> 
> > If people are using WS_FTP to ftp through the firewall
> 
> They aren't.  They're being hynoptised by a button with "Firewall"
> written on it  :-)
> 
> Martin
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