On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:17:40 -0600 "Ron Darling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Several of the FTP software's that I have installed on my w2k machine report > "500 illegal PORT Command" when trying to connect through IPTables firewall > rules. What should I look for in rules ? > > I have the same problem. I've found I need to run my firewall script twice during bootup to work around the problem. Note that I load all the ftp helper modules and iptables connection tracking. I also notice that passive ftp works fine. This only happens when I'm using active ftp. Finally if my script was bad then why would running it twice work? my theory is that something is wrong with "RELATED". Please rerun your firewall script and tell me if that fixes your problem. Bob > Ron Darling > President Ix.sys, Inc. > http://www.ixsys.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 817.377.0925 > > >