FTP on the BEFSR41

[bahbah]

I set up FTP on one of my pc's sometime ago and all worked fine i need to do it again but i cant get it to work without setting the DMZ on the ip of the FTP box...

I need to use DMZ on my main pc not the FTP box

I have set up a forward in advanced setting, i am using bulletfproof on the FTP box users can loggon but cannot see the the files. If i add the FTP pc to dmz they can upload/download files

I cant remember how i did it last time.

I have the BEFSR41 with firmware 1.42.6, Mar 11 2002

Also while im on these new options of MTU and SPI in the new firmware is there a benefit useing them.

[BobTheBoob]

Make sure the ftp program only uses 1 port and not any open random port then forwared that port.

[Stu]

You need to port forward port 20 (the data channel) in addition to port 21 (the control channel). The problem is that once your clients login they are switching to passive mode, which sends commands (cd, ls, etc.) branded with a "reply to port" using the data channel. This is done so that if your clients are behind a firewall using NAT the data can get through, as the client initiated the connection.