On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:11:26 +0100, you wrote:
ftp: Some servers make problems: Either the download always hangs at the last few (kilo)bytes or the ftp server fails to open the data connection (login is possible but connection hangs when doing a "ls").It seems to be a problem with masquerading: in my logfiles I can see that ipchains denies incoming connections from port 20 of the remote ftpserver. The module ip_masq_ftp is loaded and it works without any problems for many other servers.
Incoming connections on port 20 means that active ftp was attempted - it's not an error if the firewall blocks that. Actually I think it should do that.
Using the commandline ftp-client on 7.1 I had a similar problem regarding the ls: "data connection already active" and nothing else happend. Typing "epsv4" at the ftp-prompt before issuing any other command took care of that. (Type "help" at the ftp-commandprompt to see the possible commands.)
I'm also having problems with ftp and nat. Sorry if this a bit offtopic in this ml. I have a RDSI dial-up connection with a RDSI router (doing NAT). Misteriosly windows NT ftp client works nice while linux (suse 7.0) doesn't. It seems not to be a active/passive problem, since I've tested both modes in linux. It's strange... if anyone has suffered the same behaviour, plz write to me. TIA. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ** RoMaN SoFt / LLFB ** roman@madrid.com http://pagina.de/romansoft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~