On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:06:18PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On Wednesday 07 October 2009 11:29:48 Matt Johnston wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Dropbear doesn't know anything particular about FTP. I > > suspect that forwarding FTP through dropbear (or any other > > SSH server) won't work very well, given they dynamic > > port allocation. Perhaps OpenSSH client with socks > > forwarding might work? > > Actually ftp has a "passive" mode that's often the default these days that > uses the existing connection rather than dialing back the other way (which > was > an insane design to begin with and gives masquerading routers hives). When > it > isn't typing "passive" generally enables it.
I don't think passive mode uses the single port 21 connection - rather it makes a new TCP connection to the server on a random port? A single SSH port forward won't cope with that. Matt
