Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:17:04 +1000 From: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ICQ with NAT problems Message-ID: <3BD4EF40.70004@quake.com.au>
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Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
>
> Forwarding a different range of ports doesnt seem to work without
> problems either... When I use LICQ on the gateway/nat machine
> and forward for example ports 30000 - 30009 to the internal inter-
> face/ip-address of the gatewy/nat machine, file transfers seem to
> work.
>
> But forwarding for example the port range of 30011 - 30019 to
> an internal machine behind the gateway/nat machine, file transfers
> wont work correctly (ICQ with win2k)... The request comes in
> ("Incoming file transfer") but then it just says "listening" and the
> sender gets the error message "can't establish direct connection".
Hmmm I have had this working fine, maybe try giving it a larger port
range or something, it seems to like to use a lot of ports...
On a different topic, what is the default time that NAT keeps a UDP
socket open in its table? It should be possible to get ICQ to keep
the connection alive by specifing a shorter timeout period...
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