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Date:      Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:43:37 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firewall and FreeBSD ports
Message-ID:  <20081010214301.V79246@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <110C2D5E-5772-4304-9F90-FDAC5EACAE2E@identry.com>
References:  <110C2D5E-5772-4304-9F90-FDAC5EACAE2E@identry.com>

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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




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