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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
Subject: Re: ftp forward to internal machine
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:29:55 +0100
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On Tuesday 04 June 2002 11:24 pm, Omar Castaneda Acosta wrote:

> I've never included port 20 on my firewall rules and both passive and
> active ftp work fine.

Yeah, but I'll bet you're not translating the service to run on a weird port 
number, are you ?

You're almost certainly using "-m state --state RELATED" to handle port 20 
for you.   Isn't stateful inspection wonderful :-)


Antony