PATCH: more ports for ip_conntrack_ftp / ip_nat_ftp

[Rusty Russell]

In message <20000704215756.D11714@coruscant.sunbeam.de> you write:
> I just did some little patches to add support for more than one ftp port.
> 
> The 2.2.x ip_masq_ftp supported a module load option "ports=x,y,z" to give
> a list of possible ftp control ports. My patch adds this option to netfilter.

You've got to be kidding.  I always assumed that someone added that
option to 2.2 as a joke!

Please explain to me, in small words, why we should support this?
Rusty.
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