RE: [SLUG] FTP and the Lynksys router

From: Todd Robinson (mtrob@penguix.com)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 10:53:57 EDT


I see a little confusion, maybe mine, that in your pictogram you are
traversing the Internet. If that is the case, you can't use a private
IP. You would be using the IP of the WAN side of the Linksys router.
Also, you would need to set the router's DMZ to the tower box you wish
to reach (or preferrably, though I don't remember if Linksys does this,
to forward port 21 to the IP of the tower). In its normal configuration
the Linksys box is going to block any new inbound traffic. Also, is
your notebook sitting on the internet, or is it behind a router/firewall
also?

Todd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net] On
> Behalf Of Norbert Cartagena
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 8:44 PM
> To: slug
> Subject: [SLUG] FTP and the Lynksys router
>
>
> Ok, probably a simple question:
>
> I currently have simple network set up that looks like this:
>
> Tower**************|
> (SuSE 7.3)>>>>>>>>>|
> *******************|>>>(Connected to)>>Lynksys
> Router-->(Internet) Laptop*************| (Drake 8.1)>>>>>>>>|
>
> (Hope that was understandable)
>
> I'm trying to ftp into my tower from my laptop (so I can drop
> off some
> stuff - switching the system over to SuSE 8.0 for a whirl). My tower
> currently has FTP open but I still can't get through to it from the
> laptop. I can ping, telnet, ssh, scp, blah blah blah. Nevertheless, I
> can't get through to the tower. This is what gFTP outputs:
>
> Looking up 192.168.1.101
> Trying 192.168.1.101:21
> Connected to 192.168.1.101:21
> <foot note> after about 5 seconds</foot note>
> Disconnecting from site 192.168.1.101
> Waiting 30 seconds until trying to connect again
>
> Is the router stopping this by any chance? Is there something
> inherently
> wrong with my Drake system? Will Rocky be able to get to
> Bullwinkle in
> time to save him from the dastardly Boris and Natasha?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gnorb
>
>
>



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