Hi Mark,   
      
   >> As BBBS can't configure a port range for that, I must set all   
   >> unused ports for forwarding the passive responses from BBBS' ftp   
   >> to router/fw and back.   
      
   > this depends on your firewall... the linux firewalls i'm familiar with use   
   > conntrack to keep up with the connections... there's a specific module for   
   > conntrack to use for ftp connections and it does easily manage passive   
   >connections quite well... i've not had any problems with my ftp server and hav   
   > never even though to use its config for specific ports... it just works ;)   
      
   Depends on what you use, Mark.. Over here I am using a firewall, I'd just   
   forgotten to include the equivalent ports for BBBS's ftp as I did for regular   
   ftp:   
      
   /etc/services   
   [...]   
   ftp-data        20/tcp   
   ftp             21/tcp   
   [...]   
   bftp-data       60720/tcp                       #BBBS Bftp-data   
   bftp            60721/tcp                       #BBBS Bftp   
      
   BBBS runs it's own daemons for ftp, http and more. I initially had to include   
   all the BBBS 'ports' to open them up for everyone... which makes sense.   
      
   >> You can do it. I'm sure. ;-)   
      
   > janis, maybe it is time to look at your firewall or put that modem in bridge   
   > mode and set up a firewall similar to the one i run ;)   
      
   Nah.. I don't think you understand my setup here .  Everything works just   
   fine ... The firewall I'm using is just like conntrack.  The only reason I   
   added the 60720 above is because I suspected that it might have been the   
   reason why ftp requests at filegate.net 60721 were failing earlier..   
      
   Btw, I sure _don't_ want to put my DSL modem in bridge mode.. I don't think   
   that would be a nice thing to do to Ron Lol.. We have 5 ip addresses here.   
      
   I will check out conntrack though I don't think I'll need it. we'll see :)   
      
   Take care,   
   Janis   
      
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