Advertising a specific address and/or port range for ftpd

[Ronald Klop]

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:13:50 +0100, Patrick Lamaiziere  
<patfbsd at davenulle.org> wrote:

> Le Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:33:46 -0500,
> Chris Ross <cross+freebsd at distal.com> a écrit :
>
>>   I am migrating some server functionality from a NetBSD host to a
>> newly built FreeBSD (stable/10) host.  One of the functions of this
>> server is accepting authenticated FTP connections to receive data
>> files.  The NetBSD ftpd has a configuration file (ftpd.conf) that
>> allows, amongst other things, setting the "advertised address" and
>> "port range" to be used for PASV connections (and assumedly EPSV, for
>> port range).  Is any of this possible with the base ftpd in FreeBSD
>> 10?  If not, is there a well-known suggested port that can be
>> configured to perform this way?  Running ftpd out of inetd would be
>> fine, but I could run it as a long-lived service if that's strongly
>> recommended.
>
> I don't know for the base ftpd, pure-ftpd has these features. I use
> it since years without any problem. It also provides virtual users and
> is IMO very easy to configure.

I guess it gets less useful to have (and support) a ftp server in base.

Ronald.