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Date:      Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:26:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Loren Daniel Koss <loren@pciway.com>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FTP through NATD.. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907271125110.11104-100000@unix.pciway.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907271605.RAA05395@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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Okay, I did that and now it just hangs after it connects and tries to do 
a listing of the files.. What should
the NATD.CONF file look like?  I have:

redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:6002 216.32.46.218:8002

It's really weird..

Thanks for your help.

Loren

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Brian Somers wrote:

> > Brian,
> > do you mean passive mode on the FTP server?  Its a WIN NT box..  Or do you
> > mean passive mode of NATD or something?  Sorry I'm such a newbie..
> 
> Passive mode on the client side.
> 
> Passive mode basically means that the server does not try to open up 
> a second channel back to the client.  The NAT stuff can only handle 
> this sort of thing if it can recognise the ``PORT'' command going out 
> on the original channel (it then prepares itself for the 
> back-connect), but natd only looks for PORT commands on the standard 
> ftp port.
> 
> > On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Brian Somers wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > > I am having a helluva time with this..  I moved the port of my FTP server
> > > > that is behind my FreeBSD box to 6002..  I am able to connect to it from
> > > > the outside just fine, except for doing any LIST, PUT, or GETs..  They get
> > > > me a "INVALID PORT COMMAND"  Does anyone know how to solve this??
> > > 
> > > If you're not using the standard ftp port, you *must* use passive 
> > > mode ftp (otherwise libalias won't detect and fix the port command).
> > > 
> > > Passive mode is enabled in FreeBSD with ``-p''.
> > > 
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Loren
> > > > 
> > > > loren@pciway.com
> 
> -- 
> Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@FreeBSD.org>
>       <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;                   <brian@OpenBSD.org>
> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !          <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk>
> 
> 



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