Re: [SLUG] passive FTP

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Graeme Merrall <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> tried out the self-installer. The problem was that I'm behind an
> IPChains box and the FTP transfer failed I can only guess due to the
> fact the transfer wasn't passive. Since newer apps are downloading

You can either use ip_masq_ftp to support "normal" FTP transfers, or you
can install squid which will always use passive mode by default.
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