J.R. Oldroyd wrote: > The two main tools most users appear to use for FTP, viz ftp > and firefox, do not work well with ftp-proxy any more. While > ftp can be configured to work, firefox cannot. The problem is > that ftp-proxy only supports active mode connections and firefox > only supports passive ones. Ftp, itself, defaults to passive > (or even epsv4) and has to be configured to default to active. > > The port ftp/pftpx is an alternate FTP proxy which handles > passive and epsv4 just fine. > > Is it time to deprecate ftp-proxy and elevate ftp/pftpx to the > base system and recommend its use instead? > > -jr > I am a bit sceptical against this because ftp-proxy is a tool derived from OpenBSD ( afair ) and it works very well together with PF and things like that. Max: Your thoughts? :) -- /"\ Best regards, | remko_at_FreeBSD.org \ / Remko Lodder | remko_at_EFnet X http://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and NewsReceived on Fri Dec 14 2007 - 20:30:41 UTC
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