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Re: [LUG] Mozilla, Passive file transfer FTP.



On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:35:12 +0000, Simon Waters
<Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>John Horne wrote:
>> 
>> There are specific reasons why passive ftp has been disabled. It will
>> not be enabled.
>
>I have to ask - what reasons if it isn't too intrusive...
>
>This has to be the first firewall config to break passive ftp, but not
>active, if I've understood the issue correctly.
>
>Does anyone know off hand if IPCOP (or other dedicated firewall does ftp
> with a sensible proxy?)? One site just jumped from roll your own
>ipchains to roll your own ipchains emulation under 2.4,and I really want
>something a bit more user friendly and easier to audit.
>
>I have a recent IPCOP CD, I just don't have any PC's to hand on which I
>feel happy to answer "yes" to the "this will destroy all exising
>partitions, ok" question. (Actually lots of old PC's to hand just a
>shortage of CDROM drives).


Simon, I have spare CDROM drive here if you need it

Dave
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