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Date:      Fri, 28 May 1999 14:19:09 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990528141514.12812M-100000@elect8>
In-Reply-To: <xzplne9o0pc.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no>

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On 28 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

 > "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> writes:
 > > 	Yay! This is awesome. I guess in addition to ftp, the tools and
 > > libraries you talk about would also include fetch, and other firewall
 > > not so friendly things? (Would be nice if CVSup can fake FTP_PASSIVE_MODE
 > > by doing '-P -' too).
 > 
 > CVSup uses multiplexed mode by default, which means it multiplexes its
 > various data channels over a single TCP connection. The server does
 > not (should not) attempt to connect back to the client.

No.

$ /usr/local/bin/cvsup /usr/src-supfile -g -L 2 
...
Establishing active-mode data connection
Timed out waiting for connection from server.  Check your firewall setup
or try the "-P m" option

And it never gets there (firewall is 3 hops down the road).
'-P m' does change the behaviour.

Nick



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