Re: Passive FTP on PPPoE connection

Seeing internal ip address is correct..... I'm curious on how sometime you
get private but other times you got the public IP address from RRAS.

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"Arjan Gijsberts" <arjang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Since a couple of months I've been using IIS 6 as my FTP server on a PPPoE
> connection. This setup however has given me headaches for a while now, so
> I hope someone here can help me out of these problems.
>
> The problem is that I can't seem to connect from the internet using
> passive FTP. I've traced the problem to the 227 command, which returns my
> local IP address (in the NAT setup). E.g.: '227 Entering Passive Mode
> (10,2,2,101,6,215).', whereas 10.2.2.101 is my private IP address.
> Sometimes a reboot could fix the problem, so that the 227 command would
> return my public IP address. RRAS would then automatically arrange NAT and
> firewall settings, so in those cases it worked like it should. However, a
> reboot is far from problem solving and rebooting takes quite a while on
> the machine.
>
> My current setup is like this: The server obtains a public IP using PPPoE
> (using a raspppoe created connection, this works fine however). I use RRAS
> for the basic firewall and for NAT. The problem occurs with and without
> the firewall, so I am sure that the firewall can't cause any problems.
> I've enabled the FTP service in RRAS, which should take care of everything
> like forwarding port 20, forwarding the passive port and taking care of
> the firewall for these ports.
>
> Hopefully someone here knows how to deal with IIS 6 Passive FTP in a NAT
> situation. Perhaps someone could give some more information about the FTP
> part of the NAT 'engine', since I find there is very few information on
> that topic.
>
> TIA
>
> A. Gijsberts
>
>
>


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