Subject: Re: FTP Proxy
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/06/2000 11:16:36
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 03:58:02PM -0400, Mike Pelley wrote:
> 
> > Is it the PORT command that, in passive mode, sends the IP
> > address of the client, to which the remote server must
> > connect?  How is the remote to perform the translation?
> 
> That is active mode - in passive mode all tcp connections are initiated by
> the client.
> 
Oops, it does rather seem that FTP is getting me thoroughly confused.  I guess
they knew it was coming, because they didn't exactly call it SFTP.

I'll shut up now, until I figure out a bit more :-)

++L