On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, John Reilly wrote:
> The situation isn't entirely clear, but basicly - the ftp server does not
> need to be configured with the real-world IP address. The NAT'ing must
> happen on the router/firewall and both inbound and outbound traffic must
> pass through that router.
Also remember that if the internal FTP server is using a private IP
address, the FTP server needs to name the firewall IP address as the IP to
masquerade as. ProFTPD has this feature I believe, not sure about the
rest. Otherwise what happens is the FTP server tells the client to connect
to 10.10.10.1 which obviously the client knows nothing about
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Mel Gorman
MSc Student, University of Limerick
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