Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 19:30:56 +1000 (EST) From: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au To: ChrisMic@clientlogic.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ICQ Message-ID: <199909080930.TAA23353@goblin.apana.org.au>
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Thanks for response Christopher > I'm not quite sure why you've singled me out to ask this question, but yes > it works fine. > I don't know either ...... either you were in the group of people who helped me with another problem a while back, or your name came up in the mailing list archives when I was looking for info on the issue. I eventually found a sorta offbeat solution that got ICQ working quite well without the added complication of SOCKS > Is your BSD gateway running some form of NAT or is it just a gateway and > everything behind it has registered IP addresses? I've got all "real" IP addresses so no need for NAT or aliasing as far as I know > > 1. If you are running NAT (or ppp -alias) you can run ICQ, but it'll be > slow. The way it works it ends up trying to make some connection it can't > make and just hangs for several seconds sending and receiving messages. > Also, chats and file transfers will most likely not work properly. This is > more of an annoyance than anything else. > > The way to correct this is to run the socks5 proxy server on the gateway > machine, and point all the ICQ clients to it. I believe it's in usr/ports/net/socks5 (but I could be wrong). Also, there should be a > thread in the mailing list archives on how to configure socks5, because I > initially had some trouble with it. OK .... I did read that thread and several others on the subject of SOCKS, it seemed that SOCKS was a recipe for trouble so I didn't proceed any further than downloading the thing .... before I got to install it I discovered a special version of ICQ for Netmeeting ..... installed that and it worked as well as ICQ ever did even when on a box directly connected to ISP ..... file transfers, chats etc all work normally with this setup. I guess its something I should let others who wish to use a similar setup to mine know about ..... how do I do this ... just hope they read this thread or what ?? > > 2. If you have registered IP addresses you should have no proble To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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