sftp question

jakelegged · 08-14-2003, 03:58 PM

Hey all,

I'm setting up an FTP server on my network, and after much trial and error I thought I'd change directions and try sftp.

Does anyone know if this program uses 2 channels (data and control) like regular FTP? I'm having issues with my firewall at home and the one at work killing off the data channel when using regular ftp. I'd love to think that sftp uses a single port. It would make configuration SO much easier.

Thanks in advance

nxny · 08-14-2003, 07:39 PM

sftp runs atop the ssh-server and all connections to the server are tunnelled through the SSH Daemon ( port 22, by default ). It does not use port 20/21 or any other port for data/control apart from 22.

HTH