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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 01:56:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Simple question regarding nat
To: Johan Huldtgren <sauron@mordor.obitus.org>
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I checked and I guess the port is variable on AIM, and
so as long as you can set every AIM on the lan to a
different port then packet fowarding can be performed
and no mix ups will occur. 

I guess the port that AIM is listening on is
registered with some centeral server so a sender of a
msg can know what port to designate in the packet it
sends. That is the only way that I can think of that
it would work.

Thanks,

Wayne



--- Johan Huldtgren <sauron@mordor.obitus.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Wayne Lubin wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to run aol instant msg on a machine
> > which is on a lan that is connected to the
> internet
> > via nat?
> 
> I have no problem doing this, it depends on what
> rules you have in your
> firewall I guess, but that can always be
> circumvented by telling AIM to
> run on whatever ports you have open in your
> firewall. (eg At work I set it
> to run over port 80, this however hampers
> file-transfers).
> 
> > Is it possible to run aol instant msg on more than
> one
> > machine which are on a lan that is connected to
> the
> > internet via nat?
> 
> Yes, I've done this as well.
> 
> - Johan
> 
>
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