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    3 wan load balanced FTP in PASV mode will lost connections

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    • F Offline
      fever
      last edited by

      Hi,all
          I had pfsense running for half month,

      Pfsense has 3 internet connections:    wan( adsl PPPoE)/ opt1/ opt2

      Pfsense  working as load balance gateway, and a FTP server behind Pfsense

      when the users outside access  FTP server in PASV mode,  I had to add  static routes in Pfsense for them or they can not list the directory from FTP server.

      I am sure that the reply-to checkbox is  correct!

      Is this a bug?

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      • jimpJ Offline
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        Probably not a bug, just a quirk of how your clients are going out. The control connection goes out one WAN, the data connection gets round-robin'd out another.

        You may want to direct FTP into a failover group instead of a load balancing group.

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