On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:20:54PM -0000, Rick Scott wrote: > I'm behind a firewall so I've used these settings and forwarded a port on my > router (4000) to my internal pc ip. I wish to download multiple files using > only this port. > > set ftp:ssl-force yes > set ftp:passive-mode no > set ftp:port-ipv4 MYEXTERNALIP > set ftp:port-range 4000-4000 > set net:max-retries 1 > set ftp:ssl-protect-data yes
Any reason for non-passive mode? > However after downloading one file successfully I have to wait 1 minute to > download another successfully otherwise I get these errors. > > <--- 425 Could not open data connection to port 4000: Cannot assign > requested address This can be explained by the server using the same port 20 on its side. The port pair 4000 <-> 20 cannot be reused for some time (its a feature of tcp/ip). Either use passive mode or forward multiple ports on the router. -- Alexander.
