Subject: Re: ah!! can't ftp!
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Thomas Michael Wanka <Tom@Wanka.at>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/01/2001 13:41:50
Hi,

is either of the two computers able to ftp to other hosts?

mike

On 31 Jul 2001, at 22:44, Marc wrote:
> This is a problem I've unfortunately run into on my setup here as
> well. I have a NAT NetBSD firewall, while my friend has a Linux IP
> masquerading firewall. From machines behind either of our firewalls
> we've been completely unsuccessful ftp'ing back and forth.  Because
> I'm impatient and I go with what works until the annoyance of it gets
> to me, what I do is NFS mount my internal machine on my firewall and
> ftp into my friend's machines directly from the firewall.  Then I
> umount the nfs share and end it. With this method I'm forced to use
> active ftp from my firewall.