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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:14:31 -0400
From:      "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca>
To:        Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@mushhaven.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFW almost works now.
Message-ID:  <3B267827.5090002@lmc.ericsson.se>
References:  <657B20E93E93D4118F9700D0B73CE3EA0166D97D@goofy.epylon.lan> <20010612152856.A72299@mushhaven.net>

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Jamie Norwood wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:25:33PM -0700, Jason DiCioccio wrote:
> 
>>Welcome to the shitty protocol that is: FTP.  To use active ftp, you
>>need to allow connections to all inbound ports above 1024.  To allow
>>passive FTP, you need to allow outbound connections to all ports
>>above 1024.  FTP is obsolete, too bad everyone still uses it though.
> 
> What do you recommend? SFTP?


IIRC, there's a nice protocol called HTTP that does not have ftp's limitations. ;)


A.

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