Examples of IPFtest?
Bob Perry
rperry at gti.net
Mon Sep 19 22:49:09 PDT 2005
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 10:33 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Bob Perry <rperry at gti.net> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> The ipf section in the Handbook has a whole subsection on dealing with FTP.
Read a lot today and when I went back to the handbook, everything seemed
to fall into place. Not sure I understand it all yet, but...
Thanks,
Bob
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