On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 05:04:01PM -0700, Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union wrote: > More fundamentally, why would I need to use passive mode? I have > looked around a bit, and it appears to be a work-around to be able to > ftp from behind a firewall. But I'm not behind a firewall, unless I > set something up terribly badly or I misunderstand. This is a > standalone debian box and I connect to the net, as I mentioned > earlier, using dip to connect with a cslip emulator, slirp, on the > SunOS box at sfsu.edu. Where in this chain is there likely something > like a firewall? > > Once again, thanks. > > --Miguel
Well, I'm no expert on the subject, but I think it'd be unlikely that sfsu.edu (San Fransicso State?) would not have a firewall. If you're going through the Internet to some computer owned by sfsu then you'd be going through their firewall. But like I said, I'm not an expert on this topic.
