bmearns schrieb: > Passive mode is implemented, the client isn't trying to use it. > Besides, that doesn't really help me anyway, all it means is that I > have to resolve port forwarding for the server, instead of for the > client. > > I think what this basically comes down to is that either with PASV or > PORT, there's a relatively arbitrary port number being specified, and I > can't figure out how to get my router to forward it since I don't know > what it will be in advance, short of forwarding all the 64 thousand > some odd valid ports.
But you can restrict the numbers of ports the server will use to a certain range! It's common for ftp to allow only for so many connections at the same time, so reserve a port-range of 20 or so for your server and configure the router to forward them. > The thing that gets me is that I can connect to the other FTP servers, > and (according to the responses echoed by the command line FTP client), > they're using PORT, not PASV. So somehow, my client is specifying some > arbitrary port for the server to connect to, and that port is actually > being forwarded through my router. No idea how that happens, but there are protocol aware fire walls. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
