From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 22:32:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA01176 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:32:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01166 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:32:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01527; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:32:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:32:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Weijh cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiling ports from the Internet In-Reply-To: <35FA9621.2405@nease.net> 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 Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Weijh wrote: > Can I do this when I'm behind a proxy? > > when I use FTP,must log in proxy first. > like this: > ftp 192.168.0.1 <----It's proxy > user: ftp@ftp.freebsd.org Try using passive mode FTP by setting the environment variable 'FTP_PASSIVE_MODE' to get around the firewall. If that doesn't work, try setting the 'FTP_PROXY' environment variable to '192.168.0.1' to have fetch talk to the proxy manually. If both those fail you'll have to fetch the distfiles manually. See the fetch manpage for details. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message