client ftp proxy configuration

Hi,

How do I configure ftp client (console ftp command) in linux to
connect to ftp proxy running on the gateway machine having access to the
Internet ?

I don't find any option when I did man ftp . Any help will be
appreciated.

Tejas Kokje
University of Southern California

Tejas Kokje <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> How do I configure ftp client (console ftp command) in linux to
> connect to ftp proxy running on the gateway machine having access to the
> Internet ?

You use iptables. You can't really do much more (I doubt forwarding
via rinetd would work) because ftp uses two ports, one of them unknown
a priori.

OTOH, maybe it would work, provided you used passive mode ftp only.

> I don't find any option when I did man ftp . Any help will be

Why should you? What has ftp to do with packet forwarding? Hmmm ...
I guess one could implement the support at the application level too
(i.e. in the ftp client). You're right! So why not use a ftp client
that allows that? I would imagine that lynx in particular allows you to
specify a ftp proxy, since it allows various sorts of proxy spec in the
conf file ... yes it does. Look it up.


Peter

Tejas Kokje wrote:

if you know the port used by the ftp proxy server, usually 21 or 8021, you
could try to connect using a full URL like the following:

ftp://ftp.yourftphost.com:8021

Regards
Dam


> Hi,
>
> How do I configure ftp client (console ftp command) in linux to
> connect to ftp proxy running on the gateway machine having access to the
> Internet ?
>
> I don't find any option when I did man ftp . Any help will be
> appreciated.
>
> Tejas Kokje
> University of Southern California

In comp.os.linux.networking Tejas Kokje <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> Hi,

> How do I configure ftp client (console ftp command) in linux to
> connect to ftp proxy running on the gateway machine having access to the
> Internet ?

Try ncftp, it supports IIRC using a proxy.

Hint:
man ncftp
/proxy

Good luck

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