If this can help you... I have a similar problem (two firewalls) but I solved it using revinetd (tcp/ip gender changer run on Linux and maybe on Wine, I used puppy Linux, all_in_one_quemu on a windows machine)
Add something like this to your /etc/make.conf #to get rid of certificate check in case you run ssl FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 5 -T 60 --no-check-certificate --limit-rate=200k \${URI} -P \${DISTDIR}" RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -c -t 5 -T 60 --no-check-certificate --limit-rate=200k \${URI} -P \${DISTDIR}" # #to use the port of your choise https_proxy="https://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:12345" # #Use ssl to stop timeconsuming antivirus scanning GENTOO_MIRRORS="https://distfiles.gentoo.org/" BR Martin -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list