Re: ftp-proxy ... no luck...

From: Peter Matulis (petermatulis_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:01:26 -0400

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:47:01 +0200, No Spam
<no_spam@post_to_newsgroup.plz> wrote:

>Hi,
>I've bee trying for 2 days to setup ftp-proxy for my home network,
>unfortunately, I did not succeed. I really don't know what I should try now.

Filtering on two interfaces with nat, rdr, and a proxy can be tricky.
What you should try is to filter on one interface and once it's
working extend to the second.

>Here is the proxy entry from inetd.conf:
>127.0.0.1:8021 stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftp-proxy
>ftp-proxy -u proxy -m 55000 -M 57000 -t 180

If you are using a passive FTP client then you should read the man
page for ftp-proxy and look at the '-n' switch.

/pm