December 2019
Beginner
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With active FTP, the client will open a random port and connect to the FTP server on port 21. For the purposes of this explanation, we will use port 2031 as the port opened on the FTP client. Therefore, command communication is taking place between port 2031 on the client and port 21 on the server. Once the initial connection has been made, the client opens up the next port, in this case, 2032, to listen for the data communications coming from the server. All data communications will take place between ports 20 and 2031. You can see this in Figure 14.19:

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