Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 18:13:45 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ICQ with NAT problems Message-ID: <3BD22149.123A2BB6@owt.com> References: <3BD21435.4060605@quake.com.au>
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Kal Torak wrote: > > Hi, > > I have noticed that icq wont work correctly through a nat > gateway (not just freebsd's nat)... There are two major > problems, you cant send or recive files, and you constantly > go offline/online about every 5 mins or so... What is your ISP's idle disconnect time? I think you or them are timing out. I log on to ICQ and it stays connected for around 8-24 hours. Usually sometime in there my DSL line drops and ICQ has to relogin. Kent > > I was able to solve the file sending problem by redirecting > a range of ports with nat and configuring icq to use them, > but the constant disconnecting I have not been able to fix... > > Looking through the archives of this list there are a few > posts on the subject but no real answers, it seems the only > way around it has been to use a socks proxy, which I really > dont want to do! > > Some people have said that icq uses udp between the server > and client, and because of the time between the packets the > socket has been removed form the nat table by the time the > next one is sent and it doesnt get through causing you to get > disconnected... I have seen something for linux called icq-masq > which is a kernel moduel that seems to fix these problems for > linux's ip masqurading... > > Anyway, has anyone solved this problem? or would perhaps be > interested in fixing it? Anyone have any ideas? > > Thanks! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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