[SunHELP] Info on FTP and FW-1

[Edward Chase]

I've found that passive FTP does not work.

At 11:36 AM 9/4/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Thanks.
>
>Checked: most of the users who do PASV still have timeouts. I asked my main
>client (who also gives me thir logs) to change to PASV and see if it helps.
>
>Ivan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Stockton [mailto:toms at pcs.co.uk]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 4:38 AM
>To: Sun Help
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Info on FTP and FW-1
>
>
>
>
>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
>
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