FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs

A Comparison of Internet Protocol (IPv6) Security Guidelines

“…Nevertheless, they are listed here for completeness. [231] Local network protection for IPv6 info 0 missing 0 missing 5157 [232] IPv6 Implications for Network Scanning info 1 medium 0 missing 6434 [233] IPv6 node requirements info 0 missing 1 low 6177 [234] IPv6 Address Assignment to End Sites BCP 1 low 0 missing 2072 [235] Router Renumbering Guide info 1 low 0 missing 4057 [236] IPv6 Enterprise Network Scenarios info 1 high 0 missing 5082 [237] The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM) proposed 1 medium 0 missing 4192 [238] Procedures for Renumbering an IPv6 Network info 1 high 0 missing 4311 [239] Host to router load sharing proposed 1 low 0 missing 2894 [240] Router renumbering for IPv6 proposed 1 low 0 missing 5798 [241] VRRPv4 for IPv4 and IPv6 proposed 0 missing 1 medium 2464 [242] IPv6 over Ethernet proposed 0 missing 0 missing 2590 [243] IPv6 over FR proposed 0 missing 0 missing 5072 [244] IPv6 [247] FTP extensions for IPv6 and NATs proposed 0 missing 0 missing 4293 [248] MIB for IP proposed 0 missing 1 low 4292 [249] IP Forwarding Table MIB proposed 0 missing 0 missing 4022 [250] MIB for TCP proposed 0 missing 0 missing 4113 [251] MIB for UDP proposed 0 missing 0 missing 4807 [252] IPsec Security Policy Database Configuration MIB proposed 1 low 0 missing 5519 [253] Multicast Group Membership Discovery MIB proposed 0 missing 0 missing 4001 [254] Textual conventions for Internet network addresses proposed 0 missing 0 missing…”

High Performance Data Transfer in Grid Environment Using GridFTP over InfiniBand

“…The extension to support IPv6 and transfer files over Network Address Translators is introduced in [7]. In [2], the authors proposed GridFTP, which performs efficient, TCP-based transfers through the use of multiple streams for each transfer.…”

“…Generally, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) [1] is used for handling bulk data transfers. Since the earliest FTP implementation based on TCP/IP, many efforts have been undertaken to improve and extend it [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]. Among these, GridFTP, designed specifically for high-bandwidth wide area networks, has emerged as the most popular FTP implementation in the Grid environment.…”

Moving Grid Systems into the IPv6 Era

“…In the Globus Toolkit, Grid FTP is being modified in a way similar to FTP (RFC2428 [3] -"FTP extend for IPv6 & NATs"). Correspondingly, the specific implementations of these protocols need modification as well.…”