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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:14:54 +0200
From:      Artyom Viklenko <artem@aws-net.org.ua>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPFW firewall NAT and active FTP
Message-ID:  <4D2D46DE.70101@aws-net.org.ua>
In-Reply-To: <201101112306.QAA29979@lariat.net>
References:  <201101112306.QAA29979@lariat.net>

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12.01.2011 01:06, Brett Glass пишет:
> I'm working with a customer who has a FreeBSD 8.0 firewall, set up with firewall
> NAT in IPFW. It uses one-to-one static NAT to redirect FTP sessions
> originating on the outside to an FTP server on the inside. The FTP server is
> accessible via text-based FTP clients, but not via Web-based clients such as
> Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. The internal FTP server is also a FreeBSD
> machine.
>

Does FTP server enforces any limits for sessions per ip?
In past I saw that IE can open up to four concurrent sessions.
If plain text ftp clients works, IMHO it's not a NAT problem.
Also check config of ipfw is it supports both active and passive
FTP transfers.


> He's wondering if the problem has to do with the lack of a "firewall punching"
> setting (which exists in natd but not in IPFW's built-in NAT). Can anyone
> suggest what might be causing the problem?
>
> --Brett Glass
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-- 
            Sincerely yours,
                             Artyom Viklenko.
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