FTP Client from Behind Filtering Bridge/Firewall

[Kenneth Culver]

Quoting Khalil Khozeimeh <Khalilk at skaengineers.com>:

> I have configured a FreeBSD 4.8 system as a filtering bridge/firewall using
> the IPFW. I am interested in enabling FTP clients from inside the firewall
> to access FTP servers on the outside. It will be appreciated if somebody can
> point me in the proper direction to configure IPFW (procedure and/or the
> applicable rules) properly to achieve my goal. I do not anticipate to run a
> FTP server inside the firewall.
>
I don't know if ipfw has this feature, but with ipfilter (included in FreeBSD)
and ipnat, you can run an ftp proxy in addition to nat and filter, and that
does exactly what you want.

Ken