How to figure out my client address for ftp?

[Donkey Hottie]

23.10.2011 18:26, Peng Yu kirjoitti:
> Hi,
> 
> My ip address shown by ifconfig is different from what is shown by
> http://www.whatismyip.com/. But this is shown by firefox. If I use a
> ftp client to connect to a ftp server, is there a way to know what the
> ip address the ftp server sees? Or it will be the same as the one
> shown in firefox at http://www.whatismyip.com/?
> 

Firefox shows the correct address for you.

ftp has this "Passive" mode designed to be used in cases like that. Some
routers can track ftp usage in Active mode too, and solve the problems
in connections, but not always. Passive mode does not have such problems.

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