Re: [Leaf-devel] Mirrors and upcoming Oxygen CDROM

[George Metz]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Scott C. Best wrote:

>       Kick me if I'm way wrong on this...

*Kick*

Sorry, couldn't pass it up. =)

>       Errr...
>       I believe that ip_masq_ftp is used to make *active*
> FTP work, on the *client* side.

The default module does, yes. However, someone of great ingenuity out
there came up with an absolutely brilliant patch that allows a masq'd FTP
server to do passive FTP without (much of) a hitch. It's not a widely
distributed patch, and I'm not quite sure why it never made it into the
base kernel source, as it sounds like it would be incredibly useful
all-around.

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George Metz
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