Just out of interest, what do the numbers mean in the line:

*227 Entering Passive Mode (10,101,64,144,173,138)*

I can see the 10 101 64 144 is the IP address of the server, but what about
the 173, 138 numbers?

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Aidan Diffey
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Sorry, that IP tables entry should have been:
>
>
> *DNAT       tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:ftp
> to:10.101.64.144:10121
> *
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Niklas Gustavsson 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Niklas Gustavsson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > In these case, are you really running behind iptables? Because, it
>> > struck me that since you map the ports, the client will try to connect
>> > to the server on 10120 since that's what the server told him to do in
>> > the response to the PASV command. He will not know to connect on port
>> > 20.
>>
>> That being said, we currently support providing an "external" IP
>> address for passive connection, for use when we're behind a NAT. But,
>> we do not support providing an "external" port, for this kind of use.
>> We surely could, if people are really interested in port mapping
>> passive connections. I doubt it is that useful, but who knows :-)
>>
>> /niklas
>>
>
>

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