Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:34:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Wei Weng <wweng@stevens-tech.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: install port collection Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971014093338.2456B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.971013100419.8750A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu>
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On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Wei Weng wrote: > Hi. > I have the same problem. But the things worse here is I am behind a stupid > firewall, so there is no way that i can use ftp to grab the package from > the master site directly. Is there any other way to do it? > If you can do passive FTP then try setting the environment variable FTP_PASSIVE_MODE. This will cause fetch to use passive mode instead, which can normally get past firewalls. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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