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Re: iptables not so stateful



Incoming from Eric Gaumer:
> On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 12:46, s. keeling wrote:
> > > On what FTP client? I have 0.17-12 and passive is not the default mode
> > 
> > Good question.
> 
> gaumer@debiantosh:(~)$ dpkg -l ftp
> ii  ftp                                    0.17-12                                The FTP client.
> [snip]
> So you see he could be using one of many choices (not to mention OS's)
> which is why he needs to make sure he is operating in passive mode. This

True, but I just tried lftp as well, and passive-mode is on by default
in it as well.  Does yours?  What does your manpage say about it?

I thought they all defaulted to passive nowadays, but I note wget
doesn't. 


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