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Date:      Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:43:05 -0400
From:      Allen Landsidel <all@biosys.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp proxy not working with ipnat
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20000825084221.00b4f5a8@mail.megapathdsl.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10008250827040.3710-100000@geneva>

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At 08:28 08/25/2000 -0400, Scott Lewandowski wrote:
>I am running ipnat on FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE and can't get the ftp proxy to
>work. I have tried several different syntaxes, but no matter what I do,
>after I connect to an ftp site, transfers of any kind fail (even an ls);
>different documents list different syntax for how to use the proxy
>features. I have read reports on various newsgroups that the ftp proxy is
>broken in current releases of ipnat. Is this true? If anyone has this
>working, can you post your ipnat rules so I can see if they will work for
>me? Otherwise, does anyone have any ideas? I have tried this with a
>completely open ipfilter firewall, and that doesn't help at all.
>
>Thanks for any suggestions. Please feel free to email me directly if you
>think more information would be useful.

You need to use passive (PASV) file transfers to get ftp behind NAT.

Look in the documentation for your ftp client on how to enable passive 
transfers.




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