In article <199703222323.BAA00970@hello.netbsd.fi> era eriksson <reriksso@cc.helsinki.fi> writes:
>
>Is there something with the ftp connections MacBSD sets up or should I
>just use a different technique to do the forwarding? I've played
>around with the -L and -R flags but I have a hard time getting
>anything to work (or actually really understanding what I'm doing :-)
>(I also tried to use ncftp which surprisingly does allow you to use a
>-P flag to set the port to use but it's just too user-friendly for me
>and also it doesn't work, either.)
>

Try passive mode (type pass at the prompt).

christos