From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 12:22:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B7F337B422 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:22:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA09727; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:21:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:21:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com To: Peter Chiu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ip_portrange in rc.conf In-Reply-To: <16027015426.20000913130749@yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Peter Chiu wrote: > I found two setting in /etc/default/rc.conf > ip_portrange_first and ip_portrange_last. > > I assume these setting are for ftp. Am I correct? > If so, is it only work for the stock freebsd ftp daemon? Those don't have a direct connection to ftp, no. What that port range controls are the ephemeral ports, those opened by the system when you connect out to a service on another system. What are you trying to do with ftp? I am guessing that if you're having ftp + firewall problems, passive mode will do what you want. Good luck, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message