[CentOS] vsftp passive mode / iptables issue

Wed Oct 26 20:27:23 UTC 2005
Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com>

On 10/26/05, John Hinton <webmaster at ew3d.com> wrote:
> I've been struggling with my firewall and getting vsftp to work in
> passive mode.
>
> It seems that everything on this hosting server works just fine without
> the eth0 entry in my iptables except for vsftp in passive. Am I opening
> up too much by adding the eth0 line?
>

Yes.

Have you enabled ip_conntrack_ftp (I think) in /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config ?

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Jim Perrin
System Administrator - UIT
Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center