Hi people, I hope someone can help clarify something for me. I have two Linux systems, each behind a firewall that permits anything to go out, but accepts connections from only specified ports. I have ports 20 and 21 open on both machines. One machine runs an ftp server, vsftpd, and the other uses the standard ftp client. Everything works great: logging in, uploading, downloading, the works. Except I want to implement passive mode on the server. My concern is about my firewalls. Should I open other ports to support passive mode? Should they be server side ports or client side ports? None of the documentation I have discusses firewall issues, except to say passive mode is useful when the client is behind a firewall. But what about when the server is also behind a similar firewall? Anybody have vsftpd working with passive mode? How in heck did you do it? Thanks, Chuck -- The Moon is Full My home page with some downloads is at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
