[RndTbl] FTP problems
Bill Reid
reid at govideon.net
Tue Jul 2 09:23:35 CDT 2002
Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
>
>
> I gather the trend in ftp servers is to use something called passive mode
> (I have no idea what the difference is). Some of the older programs do
> not support it transparently. I've connected successfully with gftp.
>
> Later
> Mike
Before passive mode the server would connect to the client to transfer
data. If the client was behind a firewall then the connection request
would usually be blocked. In passive mode the client does the connection
and the server uses this connection to do the data transfer.
ttyl,
Bill
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