[BlueOnyx:15916] Re: FTPs & firewall

[Ralf Quint]

On 9/8/2014 12:27 PM, Maurice de Laat wrote:
> On 08-09-14 20:20, Ralf Quint wrote:
>> On 9/8/2014 9:14 AM, Maurice de Laat wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> Just wondering: how do you provide access to sFTP in your firewall? Unlike
>>> regular FTP, there is no way to automatically open and close the right
>>> ports that are used by the data connection. Do you just open a range of
>>> ports for sFTP?
>>>
>> Well, regardless which sFTP you are talking about, the two most common
>> once just use one port in either case:
>> - "Simple File Transfer Protocol" is just using TCP/115 and
>> - "SSH File Transfer Protocol", as it is a service over SSH, is just
>> using TCP/22.
>>
> Ah, my bad. I meant FTPs, the one we can enable in the GUI.
>
>
Well, I am using a smart firewall, which has a conntrack module and 
allows outbound (passive) connection as 'related' traffic... ;-)

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