On Tuesday 23 January 2007 10:11, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 12:08 AM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2007-01-22 21:31, Greg Wallace wrote:
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John Anderson mentioned that active ftp wasn't supported on his Netgear.
I
really don't know the difference between the two. My assumption is
limitation wouldn't cause me any inconvenience.
Excellent description. I just wonder how often you'd run into a site
On Tuesday, January 23, 207 @ 1:27 PM, John Anderson wrote: that that
didn't support passive ftp. In any even, not having active ftp capability would seem to be a small drawback, at least in my case.
Greg Wallace
Actually I found the article very misleading, and in placed, just flat wrong.
In describing passive ftp it says: "The client will make both connections to the server, but one of them will be to a random high port, which would almost certainly be blocked by a firewall on the server side."
Random high ports? I think not.
Yeah, that does seem to be a misstatement in the article. In it's description of how passive ftp works, it says that the server notifies you which port to connect to, so it doesn't seem logical that it would tell you to connect to a port that is going to be firewalled.
The client will connect to a SPECIFIC port passed to it from the server, and upon which the server has started listening.
There is nothing random about it.
Right. In it's detailed description it makes this clear. It's just the summary section that seems to have it fouled up. <snip>
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