From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jun 23 13:04:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24876 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:04:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24810 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:03:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@obie.softweyr.com) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10405; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:03:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes) From: Wes Peters Message-Id: <199806232003.OAA10405@obie.softweyr.com> Subject: Re: routing issue In-Reply-To: <001c01bd9eb2$5b536040$4800a8c0@ERIN.UNET.TM> from Kahn at "Jun 23, 98 07:20:45 am" To: kahn@home.com (Kahn) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:03:43 -0600 (MDT) Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > But can people on the outside start a chat with you? Can you start one with > them? Can they send you a message directly, with out going through the ICQ > servers? These are all problems I've been having, But these are the only > problems. Everything else works great, I only regret is not setting up the > FreeBSD box sooner. No, but you just can't do that using a private network. If you really need this capability, you will have to give each of your users a publicly available IP address, or have them remain logged into a server that has a public interface. That is whatPRIVATE networks are fore - remaining private. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message