Re: Linksys BEFSR41 V.2 and ftp

From: Mark T. Ganzer (ganzer@dilbert.mganzer.tzo.com)
Date: 02/07/02

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From: ganzer@dilbert.mganzer.tzo.com (Mark T. Ganzer)
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 23:20:19 GMT

In article <a3s7kj$v9v$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net>, Marp wrote:
> You have to configure your ftp client to use passive mode. That way your ftp
> client will open the data connection instead of the server. This will work
> around the limitation of the NAT. Web browsers usually use passive mode by
> default which is why Netscape was working with it.

Should not need to do this. FYI while Netscape, ws-ftp, and other tools
can be configured to do passive-mode, Microsoft does NOT provide
passive-mode FTP support in either Internet Explorer or
the system ftp.exe command line tool.

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