[ale] FTP only works one-way

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Tue Jun 24 11:45:25 EDT 2003


You have a firewall installed on box A that won't allow incoming ftp.

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 11:36, Pete Hardie wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a problem with my network at home.  Here's the setup:
> 
> 2 boxes, both with RH8.0 installed.  I can telnet from A to B, and can FTP from 
> A to B, but neither from B to A.  I checked ethereal, and I see an ICMP 
> destination unreachable when the FTP request arrives on A from B.
> 
> Both boxes are (to my best knowledge) configured the same for netowrking, both 
> are behind a Linksys DSL router hub, and both can see the net at large; both can 
> ping the other.
> 
> What am I missing?
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