Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 09:02:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Young <dave@boldfish.com> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How To Set Passive FTP Port Range? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209060900090.22424-100000@hat-trick.boldfish.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209060857120.22409-100000@hat-trick.boldfish.com>
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ack... > 1024 On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Dave Young wrote: > ahh, I see, the part I'm missing is passive opens up a < 1024 for the > client: > > The result of this is that the server then opens a random unprivileged > port (P > 1024) and sends the PORT P command back to the client. The > client then initiates the connection from port N+1 to port P on the > server to transfer data. > > > > So, and in my case, using a firewall w/ connection tracking would allow > you to keep the high ports closed, as the firewall would open it up just > for that client just for that session. Anyone? is that correct? > > > On Fri, 6 > Sep 2002, Dave Young wrote: > <snip> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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