In article <3C6F0D74.AA2CA35B@gmx.net> you wrote:
> in our LAN, no routing or NAT/MASQ to the internet. Is it possible to
> use pkg_add via FTP proxy? The proxy is listening on port 21, accepts
> both active and passive FTP and expects "USER userid@hostname", for
> instance "USER anonymous@ftp.netbsd.org"
> 
> There isn't any proxy stuff mentioned in the pkg_add man page:
> http://www.tac.eu.org/cgi-bin/man-cgi?pkg_add+.sparc+NetBSD-current
> but maybe there is some sort of magic environment variable or
> an config file entry or something like that?   :)

pkg_add(8) just uses ftp(1), which allows setting the "ftp_proxy" and
"http_proxy" env vars. (No further clue on them here, though - I've never
needed them ;)


 - Hubert

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