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Date:      Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:11:52 +0100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Ray <crb97@prodigy.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: porting
Message-ID:  <20010323111152.P25892@cgmd76206.chello.nl>
In-Reply-To: <000801c0b271$1eb4fc40$1d54c440@pavilion>; from crb97@prodigy.net on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:40:45PM -0500
References:  <000801c0b271$1eb4fc40$1d54c440@pavilion>

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On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:40:45PM -0500, Ray wrote:
>     I have my FreeBSD machine connected to my companies Intranet.
>When I launch netscape I get close to 100Mbps data transfer and
>surf at will. When I try to do a make on a particular program, the
>fetching section blows through all the choices and reports it
>couldn't make connection with any of the servers including
>ftp.freebsd.org. Are there any special setting so the porting
>function will use my companies ethernet connection without problems?

Do you use a proxy/firewall? In that case, don't forget to set the
FTP_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PASSIVE_MODE(sp?) environment variables.

Edwin

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