On 24Aug2006 07:45, linuxmanjusha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | whats the difference b/w active and passive ftp
With active FTP you say GET (or PUT or DIR etc) and open a listening port on _your_ machine, telling the FTP server the port number. Then the server connects to you. Totally hostile to sane firewalling and of course anyone may get lucky and connect to you, etc. PASV FTP is more conventional. You say GET/PUT/LS and the server opens the listen port and you connect to it for the data transfer. -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ It is disconcerting to reflect on the number of students we have flunked in chemistry for not knowing what we later found to be untrue. - quoted by Robert L. Weber's, _Science With a Smile_, 1992 To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
