On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:39:58AM +0100, Jon Wakelin wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Paul Trepka pointed me in the direction of the ip_nat_ftp module (which
> wasn't loaded) - I haven't had chance to test it yet but I'm pretty sure
> that this is going to fix our NAT issue. I say this because Paul Trepka
> and (Simon George at) RHUL both have srmcp working with NAT, both
> replied off-line and both gave me the impression that it "just kind of
> works out of the box".
>
> What I said about GridFTP is still true (parallel transfer are always
> active on the sending side - but with single streams either side can be
> active). And this may still cause problems if you have to go through,
> say, a University firewall. But with regards to our particular NAT
> problem I'm pretty sure Paul is on the money.
Since the control gridftp channel is encrypted I find it very unlikely
that ip_nat_ftp will be able to do anything at all.
Kostas
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