From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 23 0: 5:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maild.telia.com (maild.telia.com [194.22.190.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE09314C94 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:05:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se) Received: from d1o68.telia.com (root@d1o68.telia.com [62.20.138.241]) by maild.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA17467; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:05:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from telia (t4o68p40.telia.com [62.20.139.160]) by d1o68.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA02699; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:05:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:03:28 +0200 Message-ID: <01BEBD57.420FF8E0.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> From: Thomas Uhrfelt Reply-To: "thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se" To: "'Doug White'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: SV: how does ppp's routing work? Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:03:27 +0200 Organization: PlymoVent AB X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet-e-post/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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