Hello I don't know much about your network setup, but I would suggest that you look into SmoothWall (http://www.smoothwall.net) as a firewall solution. This is a very robust linux based software firewall solution we use here that is very easy to configure. It will run on older discarded hardware as it has very little overhead. They have a GPL version available for download as an .iso that we used for the longest time, before we bought into their Corporate version, at http://www.smoothwall.org. This is still a very robust configurable firewall and will give you an idea if the more advanced version is worth the money. I present this to you for what it is worth, because it is so tailored to your configuration. I too use VSFTP, and I have all of my Internet servers set up in SmoothWall's DMZ. In the case of my FTP server, Passive mode is used and all the appropriate port accesses and port forwards are set up in SmoothWall, using a web gui that can't be any simpler to use. We happen to use Corporate Server 3.0 with the SmoothRule, and SmoothHost modules to police network usage in-house and allow us the ability to manage our multiple FQDN IP's via Smoothwall. I used to do all of this by hand, but this is so much easier to use and visual. On 12/17/03 10:05 PM, "Bob Smith" <slyders@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> spoke thusly: > Hi. I'm running Red Hat 9 on an internet facing server, and have > chosen vsftp as the FTP server. The system is firewalled using > IP tables, and has ports open for FTP service (20 and 21). > > Currently I can access the FTP server on the box, but not from the > Internet. I had the same configuration when I was building the local > box on the network and was able to FTP from other machines on my > local network. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make vsftp accessible > via the Internet? So far my other firewall openings are working for > the servers they represent, it's just this one. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > -Bob Smith > > Craig D. -- Craig Daters (craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Systems Administrator West Press Printing & Copying 1663 West Grant Road Tucson, Arizona 85745-1433 USA Tel: 520-624-4939 Fax: 520-624-2715 www.westpress.com -- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
