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1. Jun 17, 2011 7:51 AM (in response to Niravkumar) Helpful Answers - 2 points
Re: Active FTP & Passive FTP..

This link has a good explanation. http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html

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2. Jun 17, 2011 7:54 AM (in response to CiscoLoco - CCNP)

Re: Active FTP & Passive FTP..

thank Ciscoloco,
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32 posts since but im not getting with that link.....b4 posting in CLN i went through that explaination, but didint get it..
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3. Jun 17, 2011 8:16 AM (in response to Niravkumar)

Re: Active FTP & Passive FTP..

Active FTP is better for the server side because by nature of how it works it only has to be concerned with
CiscoLoco - CCNP allowing traffic to ports 20 and 21. This is can cause problems with the client side because they will send
143 posts since traffic to port 21 get an ACK back from port 21 but the following FTP data back will be from port 20 to a
Feb 11, 2009 random high number port on the client and will seem like an outside source is initiating communication to
something on thier internal network. With passive FTP the opposite is true. This is better for the client. In
this scenario the initial server ACK contains the random port the server is listening on for DATA so the client
can initiate that connections as well. Because the client is now initiating that communications as well the
server must be configured to allow random high number ports to initiate communication with it. HTH

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4. Jun 17, 2011 11:21 AM (in response to Niravkumar)

Re: Active FTP & Passive FTP..

To summarize.

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Active FTP: Client says to server port 21, that they want to start a FTP session. Server confirms from port 21
Mitchell and initates a connection from a new dynamic port to the client. (note: client firewalls etc don't know which
11 posts since port, so it is sometimes blocked as it is considered unwanted, and unrequested)
May 7, 2011 Passive FTP: Client says to server port 21, that they want to start a FTP session. Server confirms and tells
the client to connect to specified dynamic port (8674 for instance) for FTP data transfer. Client connects to
server port 8674, and server replies. (note: the server reply isn't blocked because the firewall has logged that
the client has at some point communicated with server on port 8674)

See pictures for a more comprehensive example.

Hope this illustrates the process for you better.

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