Examples of IPFtest?

Bob Perry rperry at gti.net
Sat Sep 17 20:37:57 PDT 2005


Recently set up a firewall using ipf and apparently ran into a problem
with FTP sites.  Received error, "No route to host" while fetching files
located on ftp sites during portupgrade and also was unable to open the
FreeBSD FTP Server (550 Could not accept passive data connection-timed
out.)  Had no problem once I disabled the firewall.

I noticed there was a test utility called ipftest available but the man
page didn't help me understand how it functions.  Has anyone utilized
this utility?  Is there a site that is more informative than the man
page?

In the mean time, I do remember scanning an article on active FTP vs
passive FTP which may be a good "next step" given the browser error
message 550.

Thanks,
Bob Perry





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