Setting up the firewall for Passive FTP: (APF Firewall)
1.Open your APF configuration file with your favorite editor. This configuration file is usually located at: /etc/apf/conf.apf
2. Select a port range to use for the passive FTP connection, and find the line that looks like this:
If this list of ports already includes a port range above 20000, then you can skip onto configuring your FTP Server, but remeber the range listed. (20000 to 30000 would be written as 20000_30000)
3. Add the port range to the end of the line and within the quotation marks(”). Remeber each port/port range is seperated by a comman(,), and a port range between 35000 to 36000 is written as 35000_36000 .
3. Save and restart your firewall.
To restart your firewall:
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