Miguel, years ago when I used slrip, I needed to use PASV mode ftp too. <shrug>
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 05:04:01PM -0700, Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union wrote: > More fundamentally, why would I need to use passive mode? I have > looked around a bit, and it appears to be a work-around to be able to > ftp from behind a firewall. But I'm not behind a firewall, unless I > set something up terribly badly or I misunderstand. This is a > standalone debian box and I connect to the net, as I mentioned > earlier, using dip to connect with a cslip emulator, slirp, on the > SunOS box at sfsu.edu. Where in this chain is there likely something > like a firewall? > > Once again, thanks. > > --Miguel > > "Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net> writes: > > > On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 01:15:51PM -0700, Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union wrote: > > > Now, how do I make it so that lynx or emacs or lftp or wget also use > > > this passive mode? I only seem to be able to make it work in the > > > regular client. Is there a system setting that all of these would > > > look at to use passive mode? > > > > > > Thanks again. > > > > > > --Miguel > > > > I don't know about a global setting. Anyone? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
