Can't get cvsup to work behind NAT

[Carlos Laviola]

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Hi folks,

This is my first time installing and running FreeBSD, so I decided I'd
give it a shot in VMware first so I could be free to do stupid things.

Anyway, I have the system installed now, got some ports and all, and
wanted to check out RELENG_4_8 from a cvsup mirror to bring the system
up to date, but it just won't work.  Sometimes it gets stuck updating
src/UPDATING (to be sure, I erased it, and it manages to download it
again), but that's as far as it goes.  cvsup(1) says that if I can reach
the server's port 5999, I'm good to go.

Am I doing something wrong?

The host operating system behind VMware is Linux (Debian sid), by the
way.

Thanks,

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Carlos Laviola <carlos at laviola.org>