[MLB-WIRELESS] OT ftp behind a firewall

[Rowan Crowe]

On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Matthew Hill wrote:

> connecting to 203.220.32.124:3815
> ! Connection failed 203.220.32.124 - error 10071
> ! connect: error 0
> PORT 10,10,160,2,12,42
> 500 Illegal PORT command.
> ! Failed "port":
> ! Retrieve of folder listing failed (0)
> 
> Do i just have to enable a port on the firewall, or what ??

When you download a file, the client tells the FTP server which IP and
port it should connect to. It's an inbound connection to your machine.
Your client is sending an RFC1918 addresses (10.10.160.2), which is
impossible for a server on the internet to connect to. You'll either need
to do your FTPing from a directly connected machine - no NAT - or see if
you can configure NAT to fudge the PORT commands to the global IP it's
converting to.

I'm not 100% sure, but I *think* that passive mode may work through a
firewall and/or NAT. Give that a try...

Cheers.


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