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Subject: Re: FTP with firewall rules
From: Wes Peters (wessoftweyr.com)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 13:12:56 CDT

Nate Williams wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for some input on how to set up
> > FTP through an IPFW firewall so that you don't
> > have to run passive mode.
> >
> > Passive mode makes things like building ports difficult.
>
> Why? I've got it setup that way (been that way for a couple of years),
> and things work fine. However, I do things a bit 'non-standard', and go
> hack the sources to both ftp and fetch to make passive mode the
> default on my boxes. :)

Passive mode appears to be the default on NetBSD lately. 

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Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wessoftweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/

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