On Wednesday 18 April 2007 03:29, M Harris wrote: > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 19:52, Registration Account wrote: > > I am interested in your comment about Network Address Translation not > > being happy with FTP. > > hi Scott-- its a linux NAT thing. It depends on your distro... and how > much you know about NAT (configuration)... but basically there are some > services that have not worked well (historically) with masquerading (the > linux software implementation of NAT). Special modules were always > required for instance to fix irc and ftp in order to work through ip_masq. > Hardware NAT may not have this problem. The thing is that some > firewalls/routers are really older (very much older) linux systems using > ip_masq and ip_chains, and may not be setup properly with the fix modules > for ftp and irc. So, its something to look into. > > > > > -- > Kind regards, > > M Harris <>< Tell your users to use passive mode... This uses the current (working) connection to transfer the data.
Jerry P.S. I have my clients install winscp3. It's free and simple to use, therefore they manage to use scp.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
