I'm confused about this. I have the ActiveState port (5.6) running on 2000 and NT 4.0 and Net::FTP works fine. There is no Net::config module in the standard distribution. What version are you using?
This is part of Libnet-1.0703, downloaded from Active State.
When I run net::ftp, it prompts me for firewall/proxy info, contained in net::config.
I'm tempted to bypass the net::ftp module and extract needed code...
Thanks!
PH