Advertising a specific address and/or port range for ftpd

Chris Ross cross+freebsd at distal.com
Mon Jan 27 03:40:29 UTC 2014


  I am migrating some server functionality from a NetBSD host to a newly built FreeBSD (stable/10) host.  One of the functions of this server is accepting authenticated FTP connections to receive data files.  The NetBSD ftpd has a configuration file (ftpd.conf) that allows, amongst other things, setting the "advertised address" and "port range" to be used for PASV connections (and assumedly EPSV, for port range).  Is any of this possible with the base ftpd in FreeBSD 10?  If not, is there a well-known suggested port that can be configured to perform this way?  Running ftpd out of inetd would be fine, but I could run it as a long-lived service if that's strongly recommended.

  Thanks.

                 - Chris



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