I'm not sure if it is related, but I noticed that proftpd stopped working for me about the same time as I installed a second NIC for my DSL connection. I didn't really try to figure out the problem, but installed the ftpd-0.11-8potato.1 package and ftp started working again.
Bob On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 02:27:55PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Howdy, all, > > There may be a simple answer to this, but it sure is baffling me. > > We just had a new DSL circuit installed here at work. Our ISDN is still > active > and that is what all the clients are currently still hooked up to. The Potato > server I have set up is currently serving ftp services via the LAN. The ISDN > router simply forwards all ftp packets to the server. > > There is a second NIC in the server which has been dormant waiting for the new > DSL circuit. The DSL router is configured in bridging mode because the server > will be the firewall/router via ipchains. (It will also be an IMAP server > using > IMP) > > Here is the oddity: I ifconfig'd the second NIC, connected it to the new > router > (bridge) and was able to download just fine. The problem is that the proftpd > stopped accepting ftp connections. As soon as I did an ifdown on the second > NIC, ftp connections work fine. ifup the second NIC, ftp connections stop > working, just like that. > > Is proftpd concerned about who is local or something like that when I ifup the > 2nd NIC? Incidentally, I don't want to just give out the new IP address for > people to download from via ftp, I want all of our customers to use the > ftp.*.com address. And I don't want to have our ISP update the DNS yet as I'm > going out of town soon for 3 weeks and I want to change as little as possible > until I get back. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
