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Subject: Re: Firewall and FreeBSD ports
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> problem: I can no longer install software with ports (i.e, the /usr/ports 
> collection.) I have to disable PF to do so. Obviously not a great solution.
>
> Am I correct in guessing that ports uses FTP to grab source files from

FTP or HTTP.

if you have http proxy like squid in your network do

export http_proxy=http://yourproxy:port
export ftp_proxy=http://yourproxy:port