Re: ftp to vendor system failed

I think the term you are looking for here is NAT or Network Address
Translation. It's basically the thing that changes your 10.x.x.x address
into something else on the outside.

Sometimes certain ftp sites require people coming in have a certain IP
address. Then you end up putting something in NAT that your address
internally always maps to this on the outside.

We used to do this but the fluidity of the internet had us turn that off.
For example the major customer who used FTP but the gal doing it often did
it from the local coffee shop when she started night school. The kind of
customer that when then say <excrement> you squat and ask "what color?".


Rob Berendt