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    Debug.pfftpproxy=1 to enable LAN to WAN FTP

    2.1 Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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      traxxus
      last edited by

      HI

      Flashed 2.1RC0 from 2. Juli.
      It is not better , connecting and dir list and filetrasnfer is slow as hell. That means it "hangs" VERY often between the FTP commands.. Without proxy it is superfast.

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        eri--
        last edited by

        Get ones from today ones :)

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          athurdent
          last edited by

          2.1-RC0 (i386) built on Wed Jul 3 15:44:09 EDT 2013
          

          is still broken. After trying FTP through the ALIX I tested with, it became unresponsive and seems to have crashed completely. Unfortunately it's in our DC on a recently broken KVM Switch, so I have no Console output.

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            traxxus
            last edited by

            Tested it with build from 3. Juli.

            FTP transfer hangs / stutter on the commands RETR and MLSD in FileZilla.

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              gogol
              last edited by

              I still have debug.pfftp.proxy=1 in system tunables with July 3 build. Default value does not work for me.

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                eri--
                last edited by

                Can you please be more specific on what does not work?

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                  gogol
                  last edited by

                  @ermal:

                  Can you please be more specific on what does not work?

                  You have got a PM

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                    athurdent
                    last edited by

                    @ermal:

                    Can you please be more specific on what does not work?

                    How to reproduce:
                    Just setup a fresh pfSense install, plug one (Win 7) device behind it and open a freshly installed Firefox. Key in

                    ftp://dd-wrt.com/others/eko/BrainSlayer-V24-preSP2/2013/05-27-2013-r21676/
                    

                    and wait for "425 Failed to estabilsh connection".

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                      doktornotor Banned
                      last edited by

                      @athurdent:

                      How to reproduce:
                      Just setup a fresh pfSense install, plug one (Win 7) device behind it and open a freshly installed Firefox. Key in

                      ftp://dd-wrt.com/others/eko/BrainSlayer-V24-preSP2/2013/05-27-2013-r21676/
                      

                      and wait for "425 Failed to estabilsh connection".

                      This works perfectly fine with SpeedCommander, Total Commander and FlashFXP (both active and passive mode). Sorry, but FF is braindead FTP "client".

                      Active:

                      
                      Connect to: (04.07.2013 11:53:54)
                      hostname=dd-wrt.com
                      username=anonymous
                      startdir=/others/eko/BrainSlayer-V24-preSP2/2013/05-27-2013-r21676/
                      dd-wrt.com=83.141.4.210
                      220 Welcome to DD-WRT FTP service.
                      USER anonymous
                      331 Please specify the password.
                      PASS ***********
                      230 Login successful.
                      SYST
                      215 UNIX Type: L8
                      FEAT
                      211-Features:
                       EPRT
                       EPSV
                       MDTM
                       PASV
                       REST STREAM
                       SIZE
                       TVFS
                       UTF8
                      211 End
                      HELP SITE
                      214-The following commands are recognized.
                       ABOR ACCT ALLO APPE CDUP CWD  DELE EPRT EPSV FEAT HELP LIST MDTM MKD
                       MODE NLST NOOP OPTS PASS PASV PORT PWD  QUIT REIN REST RETR RMD  RNFR
                       RNTO SITE SIZE SMNT STAT STOR STOU STRU SYST TYPE USER XCUP XCWD XMKD
                       XPWD XRMD
                      214 Help OK.
                      OPTS UTF8 ON
                      200 Always in UTF8 mode.
                      CWD /others/eko/BrainSlayer-V24-preSP2/2013/05-27-2013-r21676/
                      250 Directory successfully changed.
                      Connect ok!
                      PWD
                      257 "/others/eko/BrainSlayer-V24-preSP2/2013/05-27-2013-r21676"
                      Get directory
                      TYPE A
                      200 Switching to ASCII mode.
                      PORT 10,0,0,1,222,174
                      200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
                      LIST
                      150 Here comes the directory listing.
                      Download
                      Waiting for server...
                      226 Directory send OK.
                      
                      

                      Passive:

                      
                      Connect to: (04.07.2013 11:54:32)
                      hostname=dd-wrt.com
                      username=anonymous
                      startdir=/others/eko/BrainSlayer-V24-preSP2/2013/05-27-2013-r21676/
                      dd-wrt.com=83.141.4.210
                      220 Welcome to DD-WRT FTP service.
                      USER anonymous
                      331 Please specify the password.
                      PASS ***********
                      230 Login successful.
                      SYST
                      215 UNIX Type: L8
                      FEAT
                      211-Features:
                       EPRT
                       EPSV
                       MDTM
                       PASV
                       REST STREAM
                       SIZE
                       TVFS
                       UTF8
                      211 End
                      HELP SITE
                      214-The following commands are recognized.
                       ABOR ACCT ALLO APPE CDUP CWD  DELE EPRT EPSV FEAT HELP LIST MDTM MKD
                       MODE NLST NOOP OPTS PASS PASV PORT PWD  QUIT REIN REST RETR RMD  RNFR
                       RNTO SITE SIZE SMNT STAT STOR STOU STRU SYST TYPE USER XCUP XCWD XMKD
                       XPWD XRMD
                      214 Help OK.
                      OPTS UTF8 ON
                      200 Always in UTF8 mode.
                      CWD /others/eko/BrainSlayer-V24-preSP2/2013/05-27-2013-r21676/
                      250 Directory successfully changed.
                      Connect ok!
                      PWD
                      257 "/others/eko/BrainSlayer-V24-preSP2/2013/05-27-2013-r21676"
                      Get directory
                      TYPE A
                      200 Switching to ASCII mode.
                      PASV
                      227 Entering Passive Mode (83,141,4,210,241,176)
                      LIST
                      150 Here comes the directory listing.
                      Download
                      Waiting for server...
                      226 Directory send OK.
                      
                      

                      On that note, I must say pf/BSD does pretty impressive job here. Using active FTP from behind NAT has been just plain impossible with Linux/iptables-based firewalls.

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                        athurdent
                        last edited by

                        @doktornotor:

                        Sorry, but FF is braindead FTP "client".

                        Sure, but it used to work with Firefox. Plus it works behind all of the other Firewalls/Routers I have tested (Checkpoint, ASA, some D-Link device, DD-WRT, AVM Fritz…)
                        It's not only Firefox, Chrome does not work either.
                        I don't really care, but the average surfer/user will. So I posted a way how to reproduce the issue for debugging purposes.

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                          doktornotor Banned
                          last edited by

                          Yeah, FF, Chrome, IE, Safari and any other mainsteam browser are all braindead FTP clients. I'd suggest to take your issue with the browser developers. As for debugging, no debugging is possible without a session transcript (as posted above) - good luck getting anything like that from the browser - or some wireshark sniffing.

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                            athurdent
                            last edited by

                            @doktornotor:

                            On that note, I must say pf/BSD does pretty impressive job here. Using active FTP from behind NAT has been just plain impossible with Linux/iptables-based firewalls.

                            modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp
                            

                            ;)

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                              doktornotor Banned
                              last edited by

                              @athurdent:

                              modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp
                              

                              ;)

                              That does not really work (well or at all) with about half of FTP servers out there (a.k.a. waste of time).

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                                athurdent
                                last edited by

                                @doktornotor:

                                Yeah, FF, Chrome, IE, Safari and any other mainsteam browser are all braindead FTP clients. I'd suggest to take your issue with the browser developers. As for debugging, no debugging is possible without a session transcript (as posted above) - good luck getting anything like that from the browser - or some wireshark sniffing.

                                Well I already did put a lot of effort into debugging this problem if you look at post #11. If I find the time, I'll do that again with the lastest snapshots. For now I can only describe how to easily reproduce the issue for debugging purposes.

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                                • jimpJ
                                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                  last edited by

                                  The easiest way to get a session capture from the firewall itself is this:

                                  # pkg_add -r tcpflow
                                  # rehash
                                  # tcpflow -c -i em0 port 21
                                  

                                  Get a capture from the LAN NIC, and the WAN NIC

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                                    ggzengel
                                    last edited by

                                    Better to capture the whole traffic to the (otherwise unused) destination ip.
                                    Because the traffic shouldn'd use port 21 (neither src and dst) for data and that's the problem.

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                                    • jimpJ
                                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                      last edited by

                                      It depends on which bit you're having an issue with.

                                      tcpflow would show NAT/port translation errors a lot easier than digging through an entire capture. tcpflow prints out the plain text exchange between the client and server without having to dig through a binary capture; It gives you something you can just copy/paste as others have done earlier in this thread from FTP clients that actually work properly.

                                      Getting all of the traffic to/from the target server would help find other issues (such as connections going to the wrong port).

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                                        ggzengel
                                        last edited by

                                        But you don't see if server really connect from port 1234 to client port 2345 and the router expect this.

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                                        • jimpJ
                                          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                          last edited by

                                          Yes, but as I said, a different problem entirely. They are both helpful but in different ways.

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                                            jlzentveld
                                            last edited by

                                            I also had problems with ftp connections being very hit & miss since upgrading to 2.1. Setting this got it working again.

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