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Hello,
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Joseph Mack wrote:
> > The fatal problems come for the passive transfers
> > when the data connection from the client must hit the LVS service.
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> presumably the people who designed passive ftp didn't know about L4 switches.
> What is the supposed benefit of passive ftp?
May be they know about NAT boxes without FTP support :) But the
FTP support is useful because the data connection can be marked as
slave to the command connection and by this way to avoid command
connection reconnects.
> Joe
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> Joseph Mack PhD, Senior Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin
> contractor to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center,
> mailto:mack.joseph@xxxxxxx ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA
Regards
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Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
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