> > I guess that you used ipfwadm/ipchains to set your box as a router. What's > probably happening is that you have blocked the incoming connection from the > ftp server. To solve this you can either change your ip rules or try and use > the passive (pasv) form of ftp where the server tells the client the port to > connect to and the client then does the connection: note that some windows > FTP clients can't do this commonly the dos box ones can't. > > On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 12:00:40AM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: > > I setup a router for a home network, and everything seems to work fine but > > one thing. I can't use ftp. I can connection to sites outside my network > > via ftp, but I can't do the ls command. Usually, when you do a lsc, > > you get something back like: > > > > 200 Port Command > > > > or something like that, but instead, I get: > > > > 500 Illegal PORT Command
If you are masquerading, make sure you have the module ip_masq_ftp.
