Yes, in this case you have *two* connections, and so, four ports. But you only care about the server-side port numbers. In FTP, the ftp server acts first as a server, but when a client requests information, the server connects back to the client as a "client".
Other programs like peer-to-peer file-sharing programs also have two sets of ports in the specifications. That's because they also make connections as a client and as a server. You might see written in the settings: "client ports xxx - yyy". That actually means "clients connect to me on my ports xxx - yyy". It isn't the client-side port number at all being referred to. Anton. > The feature you request is only important in rare cases; one of > this is if you are writing an FTP server and need to support the > active mode, where the server connects to the client from port 20. > > Regards, > Gabriele. -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
