From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 4 7: 1:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90A6337B405 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 07:01:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 30923 invoked by uid 0); 4 Nov 2001 15:01:23 -0000 Received: from tk212017108240.univie.teleweb.at (HELO Deadcell.ANT) (212.17.108.240) by mail.gmx.net (mp009-rz3) with SMTP; 4 Nov 2001 15:01:23 -0000 Received: (from ant@localhost) by Deadcell.ANT (8.11.5/8.11.5) id fA4F1GB01657; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 16:01:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ant) Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 16:01:16 +0100 From: Andreas Ntaflos To: Allen Landsidel Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ICQ and NAT again.. :( Message-ID: <20011104160116.A1611@Deadcell.ANT> Mail-Followup-To: Allen Landsidel , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011102210953.00ae4528@rfnj.org> <20011103023357.A1564@Deadcell.ANT> <5.1.0.14.0.20011102210953.00ae4528@rfnj.org> <20011104040845.A696@Deadcell.ANT> <5.1.0.14.0.20011104002203.00a9f720@rfnj.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011104002203.00a9f720@rfnj.org>; from all@biosys.net on Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:25:33AM -0500 Platform: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE Hostname: Bender.ANT Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:25:33AM -0500, Allen Landsidel wrote: > > I haven't tried one in ages to be honest, but I don't really feel the need > either. I have email and ftp for file transfers. I would imagine that ICQ > can tunnel the file transfers through the server connection just like it > does with the messages, although this may be a bit heavy on the bandwidth, > it doesn't seem that far fetched.. most people don't have a very big > upstream pipe anyway. Hm well, ICQ really needs a direct connection if file transfers should work. As for the need of ICQ...I still go to school, and ICQ has become the most important tool for communication and file transferring with other classmembers. I would be pleased if it wasn't that much used by everyone, but the way it is now, I need it to work..sad but true. > If file transfer is that important to the boxes behind the firewall/natd > that are using it.. I recommend that you set ICQ to use a small, unique > port range on every box that's running it, and forward the appropriate > ports to the appropriate boxes. I did that, you find the configuration in the parent post of this thread, but still, it doesn't work somehow (also shown in parent). When the request for a file transfer comes in, it uses ports in the range I set it up to use, but seems to use random ones when the file transfer actually should begin... and these are of course being blocked.. argl The best way to solve this really seems to be a socks5 proxy. regards -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message