Re: request for help - [mha@suse.de: Re: ftpdata-2.2.12-patch]
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 21 Dec 1999 13:50:41 +0000 (GMT)
> and wanted to use it to disable incoming TCP connections on ports >1024
> except FTP passive ones. However the patch is not suited for that purpose
> (it is for active connections going through firewall), but as Michael
> wrote below it could be adapted.
>
> P.S. I know that in wu-ftpd there is feature to restrict the port range,
> but I run different ftp server.
So fix your ftp server. You don't need to go hacking on the kernel for this.
Passive port ranges are an old old trick.
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