Published: 13 Feb 2012
By: Scott Forsyth

Understanding Active and Passive mode for FTP is useful for troubleshooting and ensuring that the firewall settings are set correctly. This week's video does a deep dive on Active vs. Passive and FTPS, comparing Explicit and Implicit modes. This is week 47 of a 52 week series.

Have you ever wondered what FTP Active mode or Passive mode means? Do you have a good understanding of the FTP data channel or control channel? It can be difficult to fully understand FTP, which firewall ports to enable, and how to navigate the two communication channels. This lesson will hopefully clear up these questions and more.

This week’s video lesson takes a deep dive into FTP Active vs. Passive modes. As part of this you’ll get a chance to see the various modes in action, see what the traffic looks like in Wireshark, see exact firewall rules, learn about stateful FTP, find out about Explicit FTPS and Implicit FTPS, and learn about the FTP data channel and control channels.

This week's video lesson is the 4th of a 5-week mini-series on IIS FTP. The five weeks include:

  • Week 1: IIS FTP Basics
  • Week 2: IIS FTP and IIS Manager Users
  • Week 3: IIS FTP and User Isolation
  • Week 4: IIS FTP Firewall settings, Active vs. Passive
  • Week 5: IIS FTP Troubleshooting plus FTP Host Headers

This is week 47 of a 52 week series. You can view past and future weeks in the section below.

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About Scott Forsyth

Senior Systems Engineer at ORCS Web, Inc (www.orcsweb.com) and co-founder of Vaasnet (www.vaasnet.com). Microsoft MVP for IIS. ASPInsider. Strengths are IIS, ASP.NET, DNS, Windows Server, and Hyper-V.

This author has published 50 articles on DotNetSlackers. View other articles or the complete profile here.

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