Can't connect ftp server with passive mode on

Fri Jul 2 00:22:22 UTC 2004

Am Do, den 01.07.2004 schrieb Barry Yu um 23:47:

> My ftp server is vsftp and it is behide a router, remote clients need to 
> turn off the passive mode then can work with it. What settings/config do 
> I need to do in order to enable remote clients to download from it with 
> passive mode on?

As you can see from the following explanations and schematic images

http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html

it is not that easy to configure passive FTP with a NATed FTP server. Do
you have at least loaded ip_conntrack_ftp and ip_nat_ftp?

Alexander

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