Re: ftping through a router

[Michael Talbot-Wilson <mtw@birdseye.view.net.au>]

> 
> I guess that you used ipfwadm/ipchains to set your box as a router.  What's probably happening is that you have blocked the incoming connection from the ftp server.  To solve this you can either change your ip rules or try and use the passive (pasv) form of ftp where the server tells the client the port to connect to and the client then does the connection: note that some windows FTP clients can't do this commonly the dos box ones can't.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 12:00:40AM -0500, Robert Rati wrote:
> > I setup a router for a home network, and everything seems to work fine but
> > one thing.  I can't use ftp.  I can connection to sites outside my network
> > via ftp, but I can't do the ls command.  Usually, when you do a lsc,
> > you get something back like:
> > 
> > 200 Port Command
> > 
> > or something like that, but instead, I get:
> > 
> > 500 Illegal PORT Command

If you are masquerading, make sure you have the module ip_masq_ftp.