FTP tunneling query

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 07 October 2009 11:29:48 Matt Johnston wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dropbear doesn't know anything particular about FTP. I
> suspect that forwarding FTP through dropbear (or any other
> SSH server) won't work very well, given they dynamic
> port allocation. Perhaps OpenSSH client with socks
> forwarding might work?

Actually ftp has a "passive" mode that's often the default these days that 
uses the existing connection rather than dialing back the other way (which was 
an insane design to begin with and gives masquerading routers hives).  When it 
isn't typing "passive" generally enables it.

And there's an sftp program stock in ubuntu, which seems to go through ssh the 
way scp does but I dunno much more about it.  (I just use scp.)

Rob
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