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gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com> writes:

> I am behind firewall and only pass ftp sessions are allowed. With that, most ftp sessions of portupgrade would not be able to connect to remote FreeBSD sites.
>
> Could I reconfigure the my FreeBSD 7.3 in a way so that it would only start ftp sessions in PASV mode?

That should already be the default; FETCH_ARGS should be set to "-ApRr"
in /etc/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk (the 'p' option is what means "passive"
mode).  It certainly works for me, and has for many years.  You can test
by setting FTP_PASSIVE_MODE (to anything *except* "no") in the environment.