On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Nick Harley wrote:

> --ftp-port 216.x.x.x

Is this address one of your machine's local interfaces? Is this curl version
ipv6-enabled? If you answered NO and YES, you're likely to suffer from this
bug:

               http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2006-01/0136.html

> The people at the other end of this transfer have said that if I can't enter
> passive mode then I won't be able to send these files and they suggest that
> I purchase a software package to make it work.

Of course they say that.

> Is it possible to use the ftp port command and enable passive ftp transfers
> at the same time?

As Dan said, they do the exact opposites. What would happen if both could be
used?

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