home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   comp.protocols.tcp-ip      TCP and IP network protocols.      14,669 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 13,699 of 14,669   
   Geoff to gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
   Re: active ftp will not work?   
   10 Jan 11 11:22:18   
   
   From: g@invalid.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 12:07:39 +0000 (UTC), glen herrmannsfeldt   
    wrote:   
      
      
   >It might get through that, but it doesn't get through NAT systems   
   >that don't know about active ftp.  Active ftp uses a separate TCP   
   >connection, from the server back to the client.  The firewall   
   >and NAT have to know how to do that.   
      
   Glen,   
      
   I re-set the router/moden and all is well now! ftp.exe and the   
   password generator are working.   
      
   I have no real idea what changed in the router setup!   
      
   Cheers   
      
   Geoff   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca