I just wanted to get a good opinion about my issue. I have this issue with several routers including pfsense and monowall. When natting ftp to a windows machine running IIS, passive ftp doesn't work. I think it doesn't work for two reasons. The first is that the passive ports need to be forwarded, but even on a 1:1 nat it doesn't seem to work either. Secondly, because when initiate a passive connection and receive a host and port from the server, that host is of the local ip flavor and cannot be routed to. Am I correct in blaming this on the ftp service and not the router/natting platform? I wonder if pfsense's ftp help can proxy that connections. I've used freeBSD's ftpproxy port to solve this on a full machine.
Thank you, Chris Godwin Linux/Unix Consultant Network Logistic, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
