G'Day, I have been trying for months to connect to a vendors FTP site using my Linux box (RH7.2), with no success. I can connect to the site but when I issue a command (e.g cd or get <filename> I recieve ENTERING PASSIVE MODE (IP ADDRESS) and after some time connection timeout. I know the box at the other end is NT4.0. If I use a windows 98 O/S no problems. Does anyone have some suggestions to analyize the problem? I can use some links to do some reading if you have them.
Sean
S/C Conway wrote:
G'Day, I have been trying for months to connect to a vendors FTP site using my Linux box (RH7.2), with no success. I can connect to the site but when I issue a command (e.g cd or get <filename> I recieve ENTERING PASSIVE MODE (IP ADDRESS) and after some time connection timeout. I know the box at the other end is NT4.0. If I use a windows 98 O/S no problems. Does anyone have some suggestions to analyize the problem? I can use some links to do some reading if you have them.
Sean
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I gather the trend in ftp servers is to use something called passive mode (I have no idea what the difference is). Some of the older programs do not support it transparently. I've connected successfully with gftp.
Later Mike
Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
I gather the trend in ftp servers is to use something called passive mode(I have no idea what the difference is). Some of the older programs do not support it transparently. I've connected successfully with gftp.
Later Mike
Before passive mode the server would connect to the client to transfer data. If the client was behind a firewall then the connection request would usually be blocked. In passive mode the client does the connection and the server uses this connection to do the data transfer.
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