Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:48:26 -0400 From: "Christian Taylor" <phazer@ns.sympatico.ca> To: "stephen" <serenity@tcainternet.com> Cc: "Freebsd-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: icq temporarly disconnects Message-ID: <NDBBLMNOHKHIPCJHGCKJMEDMCBAA.phazer@ns.sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991220031606.0079e5c0@pop.tcainternet.com>
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Hi Stephen, Are you using NAT on the FreeBSD box? If so, are you using natd, or ipnat (ipfilter)? I found that icq worked horribly with natd. I have a feeling that it wasn't handling the incoming UDP packets from the ICQ server properly, so the server was thinking I was offline. Then ICQ would send its keep-alive and I would jump back online. Using ipfilter to do NAT for me fixed this problem, and I haven't used natd since. At any rate, I finally installed socks5, and told ICQ to use that, and it's been working beautifully ever since. This would probably be the easiest solution, since it doesn't involve any sort of NAT at all. Hope this helps, -Christian > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of stephen > Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 5:16 AM > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: icq temporarly disconnects > > > Hello > I am running 3.3 stable with 32 ram on a 486, and it rocks... > It was shakey when i mixed parity and non parity ram, but that's > the past... > The present problem, well anoyance is icq ??? > the main reason for nat was so everyone on the network would be able to > chat, but for somereason, icq keeps disconnecting, and reconnecting ??? > is there something i can do to keep the connection constant ??? > everyone has taken me off their list, so it doesn't keep saying user is > onine every 10 minutes > > thanks stephen > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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