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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need one bit of clarification on FreeBSD installation. Date: 9 Dec 1995 20:34:10 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4acrs2$d30@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <m2n39efvbz.fsf@lily.sirius.com> <4a7614$5c4@ia.mks.com> <4a8at9$5jd@agate.berkeley.edu> <4ab70b$hcq@news.voicenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <4ab70b$hcq@news.voicenet.com>, Daytona <Daytona> wrote: >you know, i read that doc, and i really didn't understand what you >were trying to say, either. > >the url was something like ftp://foo.bar.com:80/pub/.... That was the section on using PROXIES. Look further up about using passive mode installation if you're using a standard firewall. If you're using a proxy FTP server then yes, you want to use whatever port number your site admin has configured the server at. If you don't know, then you need to go talk to your admin. There's no way I can tell you what your local configuration is. Jordan