Setting Up an FTP Accelerator Server

FTP acceleration is also called FTP reverse proxy. The server acts as the front end to your FTP servers on your Internet or intranet. Frequent requests can be off-loaded from heavily loaded origin FTP servers to the proxy server. Security is increased when the IP addresses of your FTP servers are hidden from the Internet or intranet.

NOTE:  You can set up a server to be an FTP accelerator server, an FTP proxy server, or both. If the server is set up for both, you must have separate public and private addresses.

To set up an FTP accelerator server:

  1. In NetWare Administrator, select the Novell BorderManager 3.7 Setup page for the server.

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  2. From the Acceleration tab, check the FTP Acceleration check box.

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  3. Click Details or double-click an FTP Acceleration service.

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  4. Click Add, then do the following:

    1. Specify whether to enable the FTP accelerator server after you have set it up.

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    2. Enter the hostname of the origin FTP server.

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    3. Select one or more public proxy IP addresses from the list.

      These are the addresses the accelerator will listen on for incoming connections from the Internet.

      NOTE:  You can associate one or several public IP addresses with a particular domain name, but the combination of the IP address and the port must be unique.

      For example, you have an FTP server ftp://ftp1.myco.com and two IP addresses (1.2.3.4 and 1.2.3.5), and the FTP server is listening on port 21. You can configure an accelerator entry for ftp1.myco.com with port 21 and two IP addresses (1.2.3.4 and 1.2.3.5).

      As another example, you have multiple FTP servers and several IP addresses. You can configure two entries: one for ftp1.myco.com with port 21 and IP address 1.2.3.4, and another for ftp2.myco.com with port 21 and IP address 1.2.3.5.

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  5. Click OK, then click OK again from the Novell BorderManager 3.7 Setup page.

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