Advertising a specific address and/or port range for ftpd

[Patrick Lamaiziere]

Le Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:33:46 -0500,
Chris Ross <cross+freebsd at distal.com> a écrit :

>   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.

I don't know for the base ftpd, pure-ftpd has these features. I use
it since years without any problem. It also provides virtual users and
is IMO very easy to configure.

Regards,