comp.os.linux.networking

On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:56:47 -0800, Greg rearranged some electrons to say:

> Hey everyone I had the vsftpd working on my cable modem and then we
> transfered it to the office which is behind a Netopia 3000 router. Now
> we get a connection timeout when we try and use the ftp from the
> outside. Has anyone had this problem? I have the port forwarding setup
> for UDP and TCP on ports 21 and 20. Is there anything more I need to
> do? I also have apache going and port 80 open and it works perfectly.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Greg

If you're using passive mode, you also have to forward whatever ports you
have vsftpd using for that.

See:
http://vsftpd.beasts.org/vsftpd_conf.html#lbAF
pasv_max_port and pasv_min_port