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Chapter 3 - FTP Commands List of Commands

Without a firewall the start of a file transfer begins with:

♦Establish a Socket connection to the remote host.

♦Issue the USER command over the connection.

♦Issue the PASS command over the connection.

When a firewall is present (used) more steps are performed in the beginning of the transfer of the files.

These steps are dependent on the /method specified in the last part of the -FIREWALLcommand.

OPEN

♦Establish a Socket connection to the firewall host

♦Issue the following command over the connection in this order:

OPEN ftp_host

USER ftp_user

PASS ftp_pass

SITE

♦Establish a Socket connection to the firewall host

♦Issue the following command over the connection in this order:

USER fw_user

PASS fw_pass

SITE ftp_host

USER ftp_user

PASS ftp_pass

TRANSPARENT

♦Establish a Socket connection to the remote host

♦Issue the following command over the connection in this order:

USER fw_user

PASS fw_pass

USER ftp_user

PASS ftp_pass

USERFW

♦Establish a Socket connection to the firewall host

♦Issue the following command over the connection in this order:

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