On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:31:35AM -0400, Don Himelrick wrote:
>  The packets are apparently being dropped because of the source ports on
> the packets lftp sends to the server when trying to establish a data
> connection after logging in.  For example, the server responds with a
> port number 3004, so lftp replies with a packet with a destination port
> of 3004 and a source port of 40957.   The server either doesn't get the
> packet because the firewall drops it because of the source port, or the
> server does get it and sends a packet back to me with a source port of
> 3004 and a destination port number now of 40957 and this packet gets
> dropped by the firewall.  In either case, all they can tell me is that
> port 40957 is the "problem".  I thought the ftp client picks random
> source ports (N > 1024, and N + 1) for passive ftp, using the
> destination port specified by the server.  These source ports are what
> I'd like to limit.

Ok, I see. I have modified lftp so that the setting ftp:port-range
is also applied to passive mode. Please try lftp-3.0.6rc3.

-- 
   Alexander.

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