From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 30 12:47:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08625 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:47:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from serveri.netti.fi (serveri.netti.fi [195.16.192.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08615 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:47:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr) Received: from turkey.ispro.net.tr (dyn-5-029.tku.netti.fi [195.16.223.95]) by serveri.netti.fi (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id WAA23936; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 22:47:28 +0300 Message-ID: <35C0CE0E.754D84DC@turkey.ispro.net.tr> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 22:48:30 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Yang CC: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: how do I get past a firewall? References: <839A86AB6CE4D111A52200104B938D4303D1A3@MOE> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello you may try to download freebsd sources to a machine which is inside of the firewall and then install from there (I assume that the machine you downloaded the sources has ftp server on it, or you may find a simple ftp server for windows95/NT/98 easily) or you may install from hard drive... Steven Yang wrote: > Hello, I was wondering how to do ftp updates to freebsd. > We have the type of firewall where you could manually ftp to the > firewall, then specify user@host to connect to the site you want. > On /stand/sysinstall, I can see an option for adding packages through a > firewall, but I have no idea how to actually get that to work. It just > gives me the usual interface configuration screen, and the only thing I > don't do is add extra options to ifconfig, mainly because I don't know > how to use it. > > Help! An explicit set of steps would be great =) > > Steven Yang > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message