[weblacky]

I would do this the opposite way. You may not know this but Irix already has an FTP server in it. In 6.5 it's turned on by default, I don't know about 5.3.

All that TLS junk will not work. You need raw pure FTP no encryption BS.

On Irix/UNIX you should be using a standard command for UNIX called "ifconfig", on the terminal of course.

The command will tell you the IP address assigned to each interface and if it's up or down at all. The interface will not be up if it's not electrically happy with what it's been linked to.

I would use PC stations to remotely deposit stuff into the SGI versus the SGI access them, to start.


Also I would use the ping command to do basic routing and reachability testing before I would start trying to access services at this point. You're not even sure if your basic network set up is correct let alone of service running on it. So you should be using ping to test routing and connection to your other machine.

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Also if you're not running the standard port 22 for filezzila, which due to modern operating systems security I understand why it wasn't. You need to specify that port number on your FTP client command line. It has to be FTP then the host name and then the port.

Also you have to make sure you're in binary mode or you may corrupt your transfers. The truth is FTP from a terminal is actually a little advanced and you would be better off treating the SGI is the server and using a graphical client on your modern PC to start learning.