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| If anybody at IBM is listening, please offer an option for SUMA to download files via FTP in passive mode. Perhaps also by offering a way to do 'suma -c -a DOWNLOAD_PROTOCOL=ftp-pasv' or some such, along with coding in passive mode support in the SUMA: I got all excited about SUMA, until I saw I couldn't actually fetch files 'as is' due to firewall blocking active mode FTP connections. I can tell that this is a lack-of-PASV-support issue because /var/adm/ras/suma.log has this for every single file seen on the FTP server: 20060116 07:16:59 V Can't build data connection: Connection timed out. So it's getting a directory listing and has a file list of stuff to fetch, but can't get any of them with that particular error. Classic symptoms of lack of passive mode support. PASV mode is much more prevalent now in today's internet environment, so IBM would do well to support it. For now, I've worked around it by switching to http downloads with 'suma -c -a DOWNLOAD_PROTOCOL=http'. -Dan |