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Destination: 21 (the port the ftp server resides on)

ALG: select the newly created ftp-outbound

3.

Click OK

Rules (Using Public IPs). The following rule needs to be added to the IP rules if using public IP's; make sure there
are no rules disallowing or allowing the same kind of ports/traffic before these rules. The service in use is the
ftp-outbound, which should be using the ALG definition ftp-outbound as described earlier.

C. Allow connections to ftp-servers on the outside:

1.

Go to Rules > IP Rules > Add > IPRule

2.

Now enter:

Name: Allow-ftp-outbound

Action: Allow

Service: ftp-outbound

3.

For Address Filter enter:

Source Interface: lan

Destination Interface: wan

Source Network: lannet

Destination Network: all-nets

4.

Click OK

D. Rules (Using Private IPs). If the firewall is using private IP's, the following NAT rule need to be added instead:

1.

Go to Rules > IP Rules > Add > IPRule

2.

Now enter:

Name: NAT-ftp-outbound

Action: NAT

Service: ftp-outbound

3.

For Address Filter enter:

Source Interface: lan

Destination Interface: wan

Source Network: lannet

Destination Network: all-nets

4.

Check Use Interface Address

5.

Click OK

6.2.4. TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a much simpler version of FTP with more limited
capabilities. Its purpose is to allow a client to upload files to or download files from a host system.
TFTP data transport is based on the UDP protocol and therefore it supplies its own transport and
session control protocols which are layered onto UDP.

6.2.4. TFTP

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