Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:39:04 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: Remko Lodder <remko@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com> Subject: Re: deprecate ftp-proxy in favor of ftp/pftpx Message-ID: <200712142239.13422.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <4762F626.4080809@FreeBSD.org> References: <20071214153229.17383065@linwhf.opal.com> <4762F626.4080809@FreeBSD.org>
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--nextPart2144223.h2Xy4a60yB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 14 December 2007, Remko Lodder wrote: > J.R. Oldroyd wrote: > > The two main tools most users appear to use for FTP, viz ftp > > and firefox, do not work well with ftp-proxy any more. While > > ftp can be configured to work, firefox cannot. The problem is > > that ftp-proxy only supports active mode connections and firefox > > only supports passive ones. Ftp, itself, defaults to passive > > (or even epsv4) and has to be configured to default to active. > > > > The port ftp/pftpx is an alternate FTP proxy which handles > > passive and epsv4 just fine. > > > > Is it time to deprecate ftp-proxy and elevate ftp/pftpx to the > > base system and recommend its use instead? > > > > -jr > > I am a bit sceptical against this because ftp-proxy is a tool derived > from OpenBSD ( afair ) and it works very well together with PF and > things like that. > > Max: Your thoughts? :) This is a bit of a confuseing situation, but I'll try to explain: In RELENG_6 we have the OpenBSD 3.7 derived ftp-proxy (which has some=20 shortcomings, but I don't feel that switching it for a completely=20 different version will be in POLA compliant). In RELENG_7 and HEAD we have the OpenBSD 4.1 derived ftp-proxy (which is a= =20 completely different tool). IIRC, the pftpx project started off of OpenBSD's ftp-proxy which later=20 merged in the changes from the pftpx project and added further=20 improvements. Bottom line: The ftp-proxy in HEAD and RELENG_7 is believed to work, if it= =20 doesn't please submit details to freebsd-pf@ This version of ftp-proxy=20 can be obtained from the ports collection for RELENG_6, too=20 (ftp/ftp-proxy) and is believed to supercede pftpx. =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart2144223.h2Xy4a60yB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHYvgBXyyEoT62BG0RAhmWAJoDp3rVn3edDlTDWmjmixKAo+WJCQCeJxIO boqRL3LxW3/6F6m/iI2W5qA= =NJLq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2144223.h2Xy4a60yB--
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