Re: FTP server behind firewall?

2008-04-18 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:59:20 +0300, Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running an FTP behind a home DSL router is perfectly possible. You will just have to open a range of ports on the router itself eg 25000-25050 and forward them to your ftp server internal IP address. Then set the FTP

Re: FTP server behind firewall?

2008-04-17 Thread Julius Huang
On Apr 17, 2008, at 12:59 , Manolis Kiagias wrote: Gilles wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:06:24 -0400, Jon Radel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What control do you have over the firewall? One of the cleaner solutions would be to run an ftp proxy on the firewall, such as that supplied with pf. See

Re: FTP server behind firewall?

2008-04-17 Thread Mel
On Thursday 17 April 2008 04:32:41 Gilles wrote: Actually, we don't necessarily need an FTP. Whatever solution to send files is fine, provided I can add this feature in a VB Classic client application. Depends a bit on the max filesize and number of files. You can do a HTTP POST request,

FTP server behind firewall?

2008-04-16 Thread Gilles
Hello We have FreeBSD server on our private LAN behind a NAT firewall on which I'd like to add an FTP server so that customers can send us stuff. Problem is, since customers might have a NAT firewall on their end, the client application must connect in passive mode... but this just moves the

Re: FTP server behind firewall?

2008-04-16 Thread Jon Radel
Gilles wrote: Hello We have FreeBSD server on our private LAN behind a NAT firewall on which I'd like to add an FTP server so that customers can send us stuff. Problem is, since customers might have a NAT firewall on their end, the client application must connect in passive mode... but

Re: FTP server behind firewall?

2008-04-16 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:06:24 -0400, Jon Radel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What control do you have over the firewall? One of the cleaner solutions would be to run an ftp proxy on the firewall, such as that supplied with pf. See ftp-proxy(8) or http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/ftp.html Unfortunately,

Re: FTP server behind firewall?

2008-04-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Gilles wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:06:24 -0400, Jon Radel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What control do you have over the firewall? One of the cleaner solutions would be to run an ftp proxy on the firewall, such as that supplied with pf. See ftp-proxy(8) or