From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 24 21:49:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2642D16A40F for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:49:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.pirko@inode.at) Received: from mx.inode.at (lb01nat02.inode.at [62.99.145.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B595F43D76 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:49:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from a.pirko@inode.at) Received: from [85.124.24.139] (port=13760 helo=[192.168.1.11]) by smartmx-02.inode.at with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GRbqW-0007dJ-JM; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:49:08 +0200 Message-ID: <4516FD52.2040203@inode.at> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:49:06 +0200 From: Armin Pirkovitsch User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060916) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "O. Hartmann" References: <4516E20F.7050402@mail.uni-mainz.de> <4516E43D.8070506@inode.at> <4516FAB7.3050102@mail.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <4516FAB7.3050102@mail.uni-mainz.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GAIM not capable of sending files, but can receive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:49:10 -0000 O. Hartmann wrote: > Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: >> O. Hartmann wrote: >> >>> Sorry, maybe a little bit off-topic here. >>> >>> I tried using GAIM as IM, but ran into trouble. Receiving documents is >>> working, but with or without any kind of firewall sending files is not >>> possible. >>> >>> The GAIM installation is as is taken from the ports collection, firewall >>> disabled ... Tried ICQ/MSN/Yahoo and IRC, always the same, no sending, >>> but receiving ... >>> >>> Any help appreciated, >>> >> >> Are you connceted directly to the net or over a router / server with nat? >> If it's not directly you have to forward ports to the client pc for >> direct connections (like file sending) >> >> > My box at home is connected to the net via a DSL router. The box has a > 192.168.xxx.xxx Ip, and therefore, I think you sketched the problem the > right way. Is there a way to do this automatically via pf(1)? It would > be weird to forward each connection, most of them DHCP obtained IPs, by > hand. Sorry, I'm not very familiar with that stuff ... Well the portforward has to be done on the router, and the clients need to know which ports they "own" on the inet ip. It's part of the file sending protocol (at least icq and irc work that way) So a portforward table which defines which ports are forwarded to which ip is imho the only option. -- Armin Pirkovitsch a.pirko@inode.at