On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 07:00:48PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > What if the person does not want to use dselect? Many people (not me) > > prefer > > to download packages themselves, and dpkg -i them. Now that ftp is > > removed, > > they would either have to download netstd using something other than linux, > > or > > use dselect to download netstd. Given some people's dislike of dselect, > > this > > will be a major complaint. > > Some people can't use dselect's ftp method, firewalls and so on.
Unless the firewall doesn't allow ANY ftp at all, the ftp method supports passive mode.
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