Re: A poor man's activity check :)

From: Juergen Nieveler (juergen.nieveler@web.de)
Date: 01/10/02


From: Juergen Nieveler <juergen.nieveler@web.de>
Date: 10 Jan 2002 15:07:25 GMT


"Bargepole" <jbhur@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:bSh%7.212141$KT.51094473@news4.rdc1.on.home.com:

> In PORT mode, an FTP server connects from its TCP port 20 to the port
> specified in the PORT command from the FTP client. It doesn't connect
> to the client's TCP port 20.

Thanks for the correction ;-)

Of course, this means that the firewall on the client side will have to
check wether a connection from port 20 to >1024 really belongs to the
FTP connection...

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