From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 23 18:31:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from notus.primus.ca (mail.tor.primus.ca [216.254.136.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C0537B403 for ; Thu, 23 May 2002 18:31:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialin-141-168.hamilton.primus.ca ([209.90.141.168]) by notus.primus.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #16) id 17B3vQ-0005mX-0A for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 23 May 2002 21:31:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 21:31:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Hunt X-X-Sender: leth@lethargic.dyndns.org To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: msn messenger and freebsd In-Reply-To: <004001c20282$71054510$6400000a@adam> Message-ID: <20020523210307.J64688-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This URL from Microsoft talks about MSN and NAT: http://messenger.microsoft.com/support/knownissues.asp At the bottom it states: Internet Connection Sharing using ICS/NAT * Currently, certain extended features of MSN Messenger, such as voice conversations and file transfer, might not work behind Internet Connection Sharing applications and hardware (often called NATs). Basic functionality such as signing in, instant messaging, and checking e-mail should not be affected at all. They are basically telling you that you are screwed :) However I am usually not too quick to believe Microsoft on this kind of stuff. I'm 99.9% sure that voice and video use the H.232 protocol. In order to do this behind NAT you would need an H.232 proxy, as Adam said. I have never tried to make H.232 work behind NAT, so I can't say how hard it would be. I do not believe that file transfers will work. I'm not sure what protocol is used. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message