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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:49:13 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        JJB <Barbish3@adelphia.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to tell Fetch command to use specific port #
Message-ID:  <20040126234913.GB28605@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGKEFMFGAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>
References:  <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGKEFMFGAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>

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On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 05:07:56PM -0500, JJB wrote:
> The Fetch command is an wrapper for FTP. 
> It seems to default to passive mode because my firewall logs it 
> going out on port 21 followed by the data channel on ports > 1024. 
> 
> Is there some way to force fetch to use port 5999 all 
> the time for it's data channel? 

No.

With passive-mode FTP, the data channel is specified by the server on
the remote end; ie the client (fetch) is only responding to use the
specified data-port on the server.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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