Re: [SLE] susefirewall2 and ftp

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 14:24 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Friday 2005-12-09 at 07:52 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
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> > I am not sure I understand your point, so let ask this, what is the
> > difference between active and passive ftp ?
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> Active ftp needs port 20/tcp (ftp-data) open in the _client_. The server,
> after getting the connection in his port 21, opens an outgoing connection
> to the client in port 20. There are thus two connections, one for control,
> another for data sent.
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> Passive does not need that port open in the client.
A straight forward answer, thats what I like. Thank you very much


Chadley



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