17 - Jan - 2005

FTP on Linux Freezes on command – ls

Posted by Paul Farrow - Under: Mini-ITX, Software

Something that I was suffering from when I tried to use ftp on linux, everytime I tried to do ‘ls’ to list the files FTP would freeze and not seem to do anything.

After quite a lot of pain, I noticed that a few of the important modules had not been loaded for the firewall – IPTABLES.  You must have the following modules loaded or built into your kernel for FTP to work through the firewall …

  • ip_conntrack
  • ip_conntrack_ftp
  • ip_nat_ftp

if you want to load them as modules then use modprobe.