From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 28 12:42:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A011137B5E0 for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 12:42:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12w8x6-000J2R-00; Sun, 28 May 2000 12:42:24 -0700 Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 12:42:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: "Mark S. Reichman" Cc: Mike , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES ???? In-Reply-To: <392FD34A.7DD13055@twcny.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 27 May 2000, Mark S. Reichman wrote: > in the login.conf? I must admit I dont entirely understand what passive > mode is, but I have never needed it or used it in all my years of .. > this necassary? I preferred the old behavior. From some one who knows, using passive mode by default is better because it will work in more situations than active mode. I've seen some on this list state that passive mode is slower than active mode. Not so. Bytes are bytes. The only difference between active and passive is which end starts the transfer. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message