From owner-freebsd-net Thu Mar 4 16:21:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from redbox.venux.net (redbox.venux.net [216.47.238.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473CF15051 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:21:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matthew@venux.net) Received: from thunder (net177138.hcv.com [209.153.177.138]) by redbox.venux.net (Postfix) with SMTP for id 2B7482E20A; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 19:22:33 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990304190512.00a08900@mail.venux.net> X-Sender: mhagerty@mail.venux.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 19:20:45 -0500 To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG From: Matthew Hagerty Subject: NATd and computer to computer via Internet Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greetings, If this is the wrong place to post this, please excuse me, but it seems on topic :) I have a cable modem and I'm running NATd on my FreeBSD box to provide Internet access for my home network. I also run ICQ on several machines. The problem I am having is if someone tries to initiate a file transfer or chat session via ICQ, it never goes through. But, if I initiate the file transfer/chat session it works. Also, I have a friend that I helped get set up on FreeBSD with the same set-up as me, but he is using a regular modem instead of a cable modem. Now neither he or I can send ICQ messages to each other, we have to always send them through the ICQ server. From what I understand ICQ communicates directly between the two computers. But if both ends of the link are running NATd, how does NATd know which internal machine to send the packets to? Am I s.o.l on this? I can however communicate fine with anyone else who is dialed-up/directly connected, I just have to always initiate the file transfers and chat session though. Thanks, Matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message