From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 17 17:08:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17043 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:08:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17032 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:08:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA05322; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:08:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:08:50 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: Alex Davidson cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Gateway Question In-Reply-To: <003901be2a19$6fecee20$6000a8c0@alex-d> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Alex Davidson wrote: > the web and do whatever I want. However, because my FreeBSD box has no modem > and there seems to be a problem accessing the internal LAN FTP site I used to > install FreeBSD (can't find various packages when I try and add them through > /stand/sysinstall) I wanted to just go straight to the source (ftp.freebsd.org) > and install my packages from there. > > When I tell the package install to connect to an ftp site through a firewall and > set the LAN config, it can't get out successfully. I am setting the Gateway and Using ftp through a firewall usually requires using PASSIVE mode (PASSV) In /stand/sysinstall choose Options, then media type, then FTP Passive Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message