At 02:55 PM 1/17/2002 -0600, Reasoner, Bob (PHES) wrote:

>I'm running 3.2.2s and I'm trying to communicate from a freebsd server to 
>a freebsd host.  I haven't tried opening port 20.  Never knew that was 
>needed for FTP transfers, but I can't see any tunnels opening for port 20 
>in my logs.

you shouldn't need to open 20 for active ftp, it should "just work".

>Basically what happens is I see a tunnel for port 21 as the client 
>connects, then the 49154 port opens when the file transfer starts.  If I 
>do a 0 to 0 port (all port) tunnel it works fine.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Swartzendruber 
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>Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 1:04 PM
>To: Reasoner, Bob (PHES); '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: Re: [gb-users] FTP Tunnel?
>
>At 12:40 PM 1/17/2002 -0600, Reasoner, Bob (PHES) wrote:
> >Shouldn't an Inbound tunnel opening port 21 from an alias IP to a PRO IP be
> >sufficient to allow ftp transfers?  I can get connected, but can't transfer
> >(times out).  If I review the logs I get an RAF block of tcp port 
> 49154.  If
> >I open everything I can see two tunnels activated one on port 21 and one on
> >49154 (both tcp).  This is the same whether I use "Passive" ftp clients or
> >regular.
>
>this doesn't sound right.  if it was an active client, it would be port 20,
>not some
>high numbered port?
>
> >It seems like this has been a problem since 3.2.0, but I don't recall the
> >problem with older versions.
>
>there was in fact a bug (reported by me) where passive clients were not 
>working
>properly if they were behind a NAT appliance of some sort.  this is fixed
>in 3.2.2
>(which i can confirm).  can this be it?
>
>
>
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