This article provides information on how to install VMware Tools on FreeBSD7.x, 8.x, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2 need perl, compat6x-i386 or compat6x-amd64 pre- installed.
Symptoms:
When you install the packages perl, compat6x-i386 or compat6x-amd64 using pkg_add on FreeBSD 7.x or 8.x
or 9.0 or 9.1 or 9.2, you see an error similar to:
"Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-7.4-release/Latest/perl.tbz: Connection reset by peer
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-7.4-release/Latest/perl.tbz' by URL"
Note: FreeBSD ended support for 7.x on February 28, 2013, 8.x on August 1, 2015, 9.0 on March 31, 2013, 9.1 and 9.2 on December 31, 2014.