Andy Eager was once rumoured to have said:
> I've been using ipchains both as a firewall and masquerader for
> other machines on my network.
>
> It all works fine except for FTP, which I must run in passive mode
> (pftp) so that the client is doing all port opens.
>
> Are there any problems using a normal active ftp over a masquerading
> connection ?
> (Normal active ftp works only on the machine running ipchains which is
> the machine that the physical link is connected to)
No, but you need to load the magic helper module, ip_masq_ftp, first -
this module tells the kenrel how to handle active FTP data connections
for masqueraded hosts.
IP Masquerading has helpers for a number of other protocols too,
including IRC (for DCC transfers), Quake, vdolive and others.
C.
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