On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 12:10:41PM -0400, Daniel T. Staal wrote:
> 
> I'm not to interested in exact rules at this point; I can figure those
> out.  I'm just looking for what people think is the best way to use the
> tools to do the job: least ports opened, least hassle, least resources,
> etc.
> 
> From a scan of the man pages, ftpsesame looks to be able to handle just
> about everything except active client connections, and ftp-proxy seems to
> be able to handle everything major, but requires a lot of ports open. 

  as far as Just Work, i'ven't had any issues with ftp-proxy over the past
  years.  i use just two rules in pf.conf (one for the rdr, the other 
  because i don't "rdr pass").  the 'pass on...' rule is specific to
  'inet proto tcp <blahblah> user proxy'.

  i use '-M' and '-m' to limit the range of ports that
  the proxy will attempt to use, but in actuality that doesn't provide
  me much value, so i'm going to get rid of that after i send
  this out (was one of those things i twiddled early on because i thought
  i had some reason to do it)...  i also use '-n'.

  active and passive both work.

  took me a little bit to digest the practical meaning of '-n', and i 
  didn't know of ftpseasame prior to getting ftp-proxy to work.  ftpseasame
  has come up several times on the lists, but in my topology, 
  if don't have any compelling reason to convert from a util in base to a util
  in ports, it's easier to just leave good-enough alone.

  one less thing to worry about.

  jared

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