[nmglug] ftp over vpn,

[Ed Brown]

I'm confused by your question: if the routing is set up, isn't using an
ftp client through the tunnel completely transparent, as in:  
ftp ip.of.ftp.server
or 'wget ftp://...', etc.

How do you know that vpn access is established if this doesn't work?  

-Ed


> >>I have to retrieve files from an ftp server that is hosted inside an 
> >>intranet, I have the class C address to that ftp server.
> >>I have vpn access to that network,
> >>using vpnc I can add a route to that vpn's ip, the script does it all by 
> >>itself, very nice, but, how the heck I run then the ftp client over the 
> >>vpn tunnel?