[SunHELP] Info on FTP and FW-1

[Tom Stockton]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Ivan Kovalev wrote:

> I am running Proftpd on Ultra1 under Sol 8. If it is on dirty side of
> firewall (FireWall one), no problems. If it is behind, then on many
> ocassions I have client reporting connection dropped (421 Service not
> avail.) and server keeping it open for timeout period and then closing
> by client inactivity.

Have you considered active ftp issues with firewalls?  Do the users
experience problems when using passive ftp?

http://www.landfield.com/rfcs/rfc1579.html

Tom Stockton