Re: Active FTP transfer behind firewall

From: Volker Birk (bumens_at_dingens.org)
Date: 10/17/05 

Date: 17 Oct 2005 09:34:10 +0200

margerum@yahoo.com wrote:
> My FTP client application is issuing a port command to open a socket on
> port 1136 on my machine to receive a file from an ftp server. The
> command looks like this.
> PORT 192,168,2,3,4,112
> The question I have is why is this working despite the fact I don't
> have the port open on my linksys firewall?

Perhaps your firewall implements FTP stateful inspection, and opens
this port itself.

Yours,
VB. 

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