From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 22 21:17:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9349837B405 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 21:17:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [144.137.126.246] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AB6169.63.5724aadf) with ESMTP id kdhdaaaa for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:16:52 +1000 Message-ID: <3BD4EF40.70004@quake.com.au> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:17:04 +1000 From: Kal Torak User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: ICQ with NAT problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > > Forwarding a different range of ports doesnt seem to work without > problems either... When I use LICQ on the gateway/nat machine > and forward for example ports 30000 - 30009 to the internal inter- > face/ip-address of the gatewy/nat machine, file transfers seem to > work. > > But forwarding for example the port range of 30011 - 30019 to > an internal machine behind the gateway/nat machine, file transfers > wont work correctly (ICQ with win2k)... The request comes in > ("Incoming file transfer") but then it just says "listening" and the > sender gets the error message "can't establish direct connection". Hmmm I have had this working fine, maybe try giving it a larger port range or something, it seems to like to use a lot of ports... On a different topic, what is the default time that NAT keeps a UDP socket open in its table? It should be possible to get ICQ to keep the connection alive by specifing a shorter timeout period... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message