comp.os.linux.networking

On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:57:42 -0800, Greg rearranged some electrons to say:

> On Mar 5, 2:18 am, david wrote:
>> 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
>
> Alright..I don't remember having to do this on my dlink but I will look
> into this. How come it works for the anonymious log-in on passive mode?

Perhaps you have something else broken in your vsftpd.conf file. Post it
here so it can be looked at perhaps?