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Can the FTP Proxy be installed on a computer with only one NIC (network interface) in order to proxy multiple FTP clients on the network?

April 26, 2017clients Computer FTP installed interface Network NIC proxy

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Can the FTP Proxy be installed on a computer with only one NIC (network interface) in order to proxy multiple FTP clients on the network?

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Yes, it can. Simply enter the same IP address (the address of the single NIC) in both “Inside Interface” and “Outside Interface” fields of the proxy configuration applet. Users are able to access any FTP server on the network, as described in the User Manual. If you use both the (forward) proxy and the reverse proxy, you have to prevent both of them from listening on the same IP address and port. (The Windows networking subsystem permits only one user of any IP address/port combination.) You can either disable one of them (the proxy or the reverse proxy), or configure one with a non-standard port (e.g. 270), while the other uses the standard FTP port (21).