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Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> hat am 12. MC$rz 2010 um 11:46
geschrieben:

> On 2010-03-12, Christopher Zimmermann <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:23:00 +0000 (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote:
> >> > As I understand it, ftp-proxy could be used to create rules for
> >> > inbound and outbound connections on 4.6. Now on -current the rdr
> >> > keyword is missing from the pf.conf syntax. Instead ftp-proxy(8)
> >> > suggests using rdr-to, but this only works for inbound
> >> > connections.
> >> >
> >> > Is it possible to allow ftp connections from a local client to
> >> > public ftp serves on the internet? Possibly by using ftp-proxy?
> >>
> >> I suspect your understanding of "inbound" is from the viewpoint
> >> of your network; PF doesn't care about that at all, it's only
> >> concerned with whether a packet is inbound or outbound to a
> >> particular interface.
> >
> > ok, thanks. Thats clear. I don't have a whole net. Its just a
> > single workstation, using pppoe0 to reach the internet. So the
> > ftp client is running on the firewall, not behind it. The packets
> > will be outbound on my pppoe0, but not inbound any any interface,
> > will they?
> >
> >> rdr only works for inbound connections too.
> >
> > As I unterstood it, it works _only_ for inbound connections.
>
> yes, that's what I said; there's no change though:
>
> in 4.6,B  B  B rdrB  B  only works for inbound connections
> in -current rdr-to only works for inbound connections
>
> ftp-proxy never was applicable to this sort of situation..

ok. That was my question. Thanks!

> > it seems to me that it is in fact not possible at the moment to
> > use a ftp-client on a firewall until the current restrictio on
> > rdr-to in pfctl will be removed. Is this true?
>
> you'll need add rules to allow the connections through if you want
> to do this.B 

So essentially I have to allow inbound connections to the range between
net.inet.ip.porthifirst
net.inet.ip.porthilast
for active ftp and allowing outbound connections from ports >1023 for
passive ftp?

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