Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:03:27 +0200 From: Thomas Uhrfelt <thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> To: "'Doug White'" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: SV: how does ppp's routing work? Message-ID: <01BEBD57.420FF8E0.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>
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[cut] > > > > I was able to use ICQ and such, but I am just wondering, > > how does this ppp -auto -alias demand work? Both of > > the machines shares the same IP, (the IP of which FreeBSD > > gets from my ISP) and both of my machines could see > > each other on ICQ (which requires unique IPs) and play > > online network games. > > You can't use ICQ behind a NAT firewall due to ICQ's totally twisted > protocol. If you install socks5, though, you can tell ICQ to use the > socks5 proxy instead and it'll work fine. > > Every machine on a network should have unique IPs. I'm surprised the > Windows machines didn't cry foul when they saw one another. > That's strange, then I guess the reason why its working here it's = becasue I=20 didnt know it shouldnt work. I run ICQ through our firewall/nat machine = just=20 fine. Just open up port 4000 on the firewall and you should be fine. ( = we=20 have a 192.168.1.0/24 net on the inside ). Thomas Uhrfelt thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se Computer Technician PlymoVent AB F=F6reningsgatan 37 211 52 Malmoe Sweden http://www.plymovent.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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