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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!207.17.190.11!news.diac.com!news From: sitaram@diac.com (Sitaram Chamarty) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing via FTP thru a firewall Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 00:10:36 GMT Organization: none Lines: 30 Message-ID: <32d03fe4.23542915@news.diac.com> References: <32ce953a.5761971@news.diac.com> <32cf8b75.0@finesse.isdn.uni-konstanz.de> Reply-To: sitaram@diac.com NNTP-Posting-Host: p190.ppp2.diac.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33669 Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger) wrote: >Sitaram Chamarty <sitaram@diac.com> wrote: >: 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"). > >Hmm so it seems to be an http-only proxy... (Thanks for the quick response) Umm, I forgot to mention: the proxies page in my Netscape's Proxy config setup has entries for "FTP proxy", "Gopher Proxy", and "HTTP Proxy". All thre have the same values for IP address and port. The next three (Security proxy, WAIS proxy, and SOCKS host) are empty. Does having "FTP Proxy" as distinct from "HTTP proxy" make a difference? Its all inside Netscape, though... >a) do you have some space on your harddisk? or: Thats what I finally did! I was looking for an easier way :-) However, assuming that I do have an FTP proxy and not a HTTP-only proxy, I still dont understand where in the info I type into sysinstall do I give it my proxy-server's IP address? That was the major question that I couldnt figure out... Sitaram.