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FTP Over NAT

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by terryfadare

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Will an FTP Windows 2000 Client on one side of two NAT(Network Address Translation)enabled Routers be able to upload to an Equis Server on the other side of the Routers.

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by jeremy the it guy

To be honest with you, NAT will not keep you from FTP uploads or downloads. I have an FTP server on the other side of a Cisco Router with NAT running and I've never had any issues with uploading or downloading through the NAT enabled router. NAT is just a security measure, not a hurdle. Hope this helps, Jeremy

by mike jones

This should work, even though your real IP address is natted when it goes out through the router, the real IP is embedded within the packet so when it comes back through it knows where to go.

So to your PC it appears as if you have a unique IP address, it doesn't know that the packet has been natted at any point in the transaction, therefore services like FTP should work fine.

This is a simple explanation, I suggest you do a search on Network Address Translation on www.google.com for an indepth explanation.

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