List:       ipchains-list
Subject:    Re: strange FTP issue
From:       "Julian Rodriguez" <julrodrig () telesat ! com ! co>
Date:       2000-03-08 23:38:23
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Hi,

That's is common, you must use the FTP on passive mode, you have to setup
your FTP client to use FTP passive.
If you are using FTP from the command line, you will need to issue a
"literal PASV" command to do this.

Regards.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Williams" <craig.williams@hookrise.com>
To: <ipchains-list@east.balius.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 9:06 AM
Subject: strange FTP issue


> hello,
>
> My ipchains works great except for this one issue.
>
> My laptop uses MASQ to get to the internet and I can download anything I
> want. So for eg. this works
> fine, a link on compaq's site to a file
> ftp://ftp.compaq.com/blah/blah/somefile.exe
>
> however, our proxy server has a MASQ entry but if I configure my browser
to
> use the proxy then I can't download
> anything that uses ftp. I get a port command failed error from the proxy.
I
> have tested the connection from the proxy
> using MASQ and it works fine.
>
> Another and probably related issue is that FTP software (wsftp) works fine
> via MASQ but if in my browser I type
> ftp://ftp.company.com then I just get illegal port commands ....
>
> anyone know what might be wrong ?
>
> I had this with my old kernel to.
>
> I'm currently on linux 2.2.16, ipchains - 1.3.9, all and I mean ALL
modules
> are compiled into the kernel.
>
> regards,
>
> Craig