FTP passive mode again

From: JRoot (awkster_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: 18 Jul 2004 13:01:08 -0700

After reading the faq's and several of the posted messages on this
forum, I'm still getting nowhere, other than a headache, with trying
to ftp.

I run Fedora C1 and have a dialup with a ISP and like to use the
command line FTP program. After a successful logon, the session
proudly announces it is in Passive mode and then just hangs while it
goes down the rabbit hole with Alice and the Mad Hatter leaving me
with no choice other than to kill the session. Bummer.

I know this passive stuff is some sort of handshaking between the
client and server so do I have to talk to my ISP and have them
configure something at their end or is there something I can do? I
also know it has something to do with the firewall and to be honest, I
don't even know if I have a firewall and if I do, it's nothing other
that what loads straight out of the box. Geeesh ... am I a loser or
what?

I also went through several HOW-TO's and most of them were either over
my head or need to be rewritten so the average person can understand
them.

It would be nice if there is some easy way to get my command line ftp
session working so I don't have to log onto Windows (UGH) to put/get
my files.

Any help is greatly appreciated and please excuse the bandwidth.

Jorge

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