What is the different of Active and Passive mode FTP ?

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Thu, 04/11/2010 - 4:46pm
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What is the different of Active and Passive mode FTP ?

What are Active mode and passive mode in FTP ?
I just got a FTP account but I'm not familiar with such settings.

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Thu, 04/11/2010 - 4:46pm
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Active mode and passive mode are related to connecting port. By default, FTP port is 21. If your client is set to passive mode, client won't try with other ports if it couldn't connect.

If set to active mode, client should try each port one by one under a range.

In most cases, active/passive are not very important because most FTP accounts comes with port 21 enabled.

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Thu, 04/11/2010 - 4:47pm
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Thank you very much for your descriptive reply.
I tried both active/passive modes and both methods worked. Thanks again.

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Thu, 04/11/2010 - 4:50pm
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Brava wrote:
Thank you very much for your descriptive reply.
I tried both active/passive modes and both methods worked. Thanks again.

You are welcome, Brava.

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