Hi Folks,

forgive my lack of know how but the time has come to ask for outside help.

I recently decided to trade in ZoneAlarm for a dedicated firewall and came upon Smootwall 0.9.9 Installed fine and I can get web access no problem thru port 80 by default. I have also been able to port forward FTP connections on to a PC behind the firewall ok, however I cannot complete the FTP connection or for that matter any other outgoing connection that doesnt use port 80.

I have tried searching thru the documentation available and had numerous attempts to find a solution by trial and error (always ending up with error).

Can anyone advise how to allow outgoing connections on specified ports, I need to allow FTP on a specified non standard port, ssh email connection outward, telnet and ssh telnetted connections so not knowing how is getting to be very restricting.

Thanks in advance.

Andy.

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try passive ftp

Thanks for the suggestion, I am using Secure FX 2.0.2 and this is entering passive mode - The client manages to connect successfully to my machine thru the port forward on the Smoothwall however because my machine cannot complete a connection back out to the client the connection always times out because it isnt complete.

In addition I cant connect outwards for POP Email and SSH Pop Email. As far as I can tell only port 80 and port 443 are alowed out and I cant find a way to change that.

Andy

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the higher ports must be blocked by a drop policy in iptables