[SunHELP] Info on FTP and FW-1

[Edward Chase]

Our setup has only 1 firewall at the moment.



At 01:51 PM 9/4/2001 -0400, Warren Brennan-TM wrote:

>Are you using clustered Firewalls? Or just one standalone Firewall?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Edward Chase [SMTP:echase at postoffice.providence.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:33 PM
> > To:   sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Subject:      RE: [SunHELP] Info on FTP and FW-1
> >
> > 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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