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Re: What is Passive mode anyway?



Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
> 
> Can somebody explain what Passive mode is, so maybe I can understand my way out of this?
> 
ftp is bidirectional in that you go out on one port(21) and then the
server communicates back on another port(23 I think). Passive mode means
that it it a one port operation and the server doesn't have to connect
back to the client which with a firewall is problematic.

Eric :-)



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