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Date:      Sun, 18 Apr 1999 09:25:44 +0200
From:      Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se>
To:        Mark Holloway <mlholloway@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Install Ports behing Proxy
Message-ID:  <19990418092544.A52732@sr.se>
In-Reply-To: <3718A88C.9BA66FF8@yahoo.com>; from Mark Holloway on Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 08:28:12AM -0700
References:  <3718A88C.9BA66FF8@yahoo.com>

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On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 08:28:12AM -0700, Mark Holloway wrote:
> I just recently added a FreeBSD box to an existing network.  The IP is
> 172.16.0.xxx and there is one NT machine running Wingate.  For
> simplicity sake we're using Socks.
> 
> Is there a way to let FreeBSD 3.x know that it's behind a Socks Proxy so
> when I download a port and run the "make all isntall" it know what to
> do?  Unlike Netscape, I can't find any way to tell FreeBSD to use
> SOCKS....

Try the parameters FTP_PROXY=my.proxy.server and
FTP_PASSWORD=me@my.place

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