port system behind a firewall

[David Richards]

oh ok! well it is a wingate. I don't like them but we have it. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Hardiman [mailto:roger at cs.strath.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 1:12 PM
To: David Richards
Cc: 'freebsd-users at ukug.uk.freebsd.org'
Subject: Re: port system behind a firewall


David Richards wrote:
> 
> hi,
>     is there a way of using the ports system behind a firewall?


I sit behind a firewall here and I have no problems.
But it all depends upon what you firewall does and does
not let through.

First of all, what problems are you experiencing?

Some tips though are:
make sure ftp and fetch are running in passive mode.
If you have a http proxy and/or ftp proxy
on your firewall, you need to make fetch use these too.

Can you tell me a little more about your setup

Roger