From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 24 05:52:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA21140 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 05:52:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from FreeBSD.Lan.Sam (sense-sea-pm5-24.oz.net [208.154.96.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA21134 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 05:52:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from samz@oz.net) Received: from Win98Blows (Win98Blows.Lan.Sam [10.0.0.2]) by FreeBSD.Lan.Sam (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA10926 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 05:51:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from samz@oz.net) Message-Id: <199808241251.FAA10926@FreeBSD.Lan.Sam> X-Sender: samz@mail.oz.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.2 Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 05:51:23 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: The Man In Black Subject: ICQ/PPP alias/TCP-UDP question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have searched the mail list archives and got some hints..but nothing has 100% solved my problem so wanted to address it here. I'm using PPP -alias on freebsd on my home LAN. I have a Windows98 box I'm using apps on. Every single app I've run thus far has worked beautifully with alias except ICQ I read about setting up ICQ with a firewall and use port redirecting on PPP..but I am not sure I have it setup right. Because I do not understand the difference between TCP and UDP and rather you need to set BOTH 1 or the other. Right now I have 20 ports set for ICQ using the following..10.0.0.2 being the LAN IP of my Win98 box... alias port tcp 10.0.0.2:3000 3000 .... alias port tcp 10.0.0.2:3020 3020 then finally.. alias port udp 10.0.0.2:4000 4000 ICQ says it uses UDP on port 4000 and TCP for listening ports. Do I have this setup right? Do I have to have both udp and tcp? I actually have tried it different ways and I still experience problems. Such as missed messages..file transfer working 50% of the time, and periodically bouncing off and online..and even sometimes I appear ONLINE on my end, my friends tell me I am offline. This is quite annoying when I have greatly become dependant on ICQ for friend contact and project contact with people. It seems in the ICQ documentation it really prefers a SOCKS server. I read someplace that you cant have a socks server and use -alias at the same time. Or can I? I can not get my own IP for the winbox..so I am stuck with sharing..so any advice help etc or just telling me that ICQ is flat out flaky and nothing I can do..will be appreciated. Thanks. Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message