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From: sitaram@diac.com (Sitaram Chamarty)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Installing via FTP thru a firewall
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 17:45:12 GMT
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I have been trying to install FreeBSD with the boot.flp diskette and
the rest of the stuff coming via FTP.
My connection to the net is thru a firewall/proxy server. (I'll say
right away that I'm a bit hazy on the difference between the two. All
I know is that on my Win 95 machine - soon to be history? - Netscape
is configured with "manual proxies").
The handbook pages on the web says to use something like
ftp://abc.foo.org:1234/pub/... (etc)
where 1234 is the port # that the proxy server is listening on.
Checking my netscape configuration I see that the port number that my
proxy/firewall is listening on is 80. So I use that.
However, there is no place to give sysinstall the address of the proxy
server. How can sysinstall know whom to talk to first?
Of course it failed, as I expected. I tried many combinations
(passive, active [which was bound to fail anyway], with a :80 at the
end of the domain name, etc).
I'm sure I'm missing something here - can someone help?
Thanks,
Sita