Recently, t...@aplawrence.com said...
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|> Recently, t...@aplawrence.com said...
|> |>
|> |> Now that NAT has been released, I would like to know the
|> |> capabilities of it to support passive inbound ftp from a
|> |> remote client to a masq'd internal server.
|> |
|> |I can, using NAT, ftp from any of the clients on my network
|> |and get files from SCO, from my own website, and any place
|> |else I've been so far..
|>
|> I just successfully used Netscape to connect to
|> ftp.aplawrence.com.  It worked very well :)    May I
|> ask if that ftp server is on a private LAN behind an OS5
|> firewall/router/NAT box?
|
|No, that site is served by an ISP- no OS5 involved.  
|
|But my point was that I haven't yet seen an ftp site that
|the NAT clients can't access, download from, etc. with
|Netscape or IE or from command line FTP.  There's no problem
|with it at the NAT level.
|
|...

Ok.  If there are no packet fileter rules keeping traffic from
moving, then my question is a function of NAT capability alone.

An ftp client on a masq'd private LAN, downloading from the net,
is very different from an ftp server on a masq'd private LAN,
being contacted by a remote client on the net in PASV mode.

The reason is complex and has to do with the IP address and port
that the server reponds with, to the PASV command.

Until someone has had success with it, I still can't be sure, and
I'm sorry that I sort of need other people to be curious when I don't
have an OS5 test box.

Thanks Tony,
Matt