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I recently tried to install over passive FTP, and found it difficult to

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understand how to do it from the handbook.  I suggest the following
re-wording and extension to make it clearer.

Submitted-By: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com>
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@ -669,14 +669,26 @@ ftp://192.216.222.4/pub/FreeBSD/&rel.current;-RELEASE
<quote><bf>Note:</bf> Active and passive modes are
not the same as a `proxy' connection, where a proxy
ftp server is listening on a different port!</quote>
FTP server is listening and forwarding FTP requests!</quote>
In such instances, you should specify the URL as something like:
For a proxy FTP server, you should usually give name of
the server you really want as a part of the username,
after an @-sign. The proxy server then 'fakes' the real
server. An example: Say you want to install from
ftp.freebsd.org, using the proxy FTP server foo.bar.com,
listening on port 1234.
In this case, you go to the options menu, set the FTP
username to ftp@ftp.freebsd.org, and the password to your
e-mail address. As your installation media, you specify
FTP (or passive FTP, if the proxy support it), and the URL
<tscreen><verb>
ftp://foo.bar.com:1234/pub/FreeBSD
</verb></tscreen>
Where ``1234'' is the port number of the proxy ftp server.
/pub/FreeBSD from ftp.freebsd.org is proxied under
foo.bar.com, allowing you to install from _that_ machine
(which fetch the files from ftp.freebsd.org as your
installation requests them).
<sect><heading>Installing FreeBSD</heading>