Csup nor cvsup through proxy doesn’t work ? When ssh forward facility come in handy..

Let’s say you have two machines, one with internet, and one without.
On the machine with internet, you have a proxy and a ssh account.
Unfortunately csup nor cvsup cannot work through a proxy, so here where ssh forward facility will come in handy.

Let’s say your csup is configured to update from cvsup4.FreeBSD.org.

Ssh is a magic tool, it can listen a local port, and forward everything through it’s protocol to another machine and there connect to some remote host..

ssh -L 5999:cvsup4.FreeBSD.org:5999 user@machine_with_internet

And we’re done ! %)

Now just run csup with -h 127.0.0.1

Tada !

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