From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 20 18:44:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from carbon.btinternet.com (carbon.btinternet.com [194.73.73.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 259F137B405 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 18:44:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [213.122.46.195] (helo=laptop) by rhenium with smtp (Exim 3.22 #6) id 15v76y-000066-00; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 02:09:09 +0100 Message-ID: <002701c159cc$fcb44e80$0200000a@intranet> From: "Scott Taggart" To: "Kal Torak" , References: <3BD21435.4060605@quake.com.au> Subject: Re: ICQ with NAT problems Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 02:09:07 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ICQ works fine with me. I'm running normal ICQ on windows going through a natd gateway on my FreeBSD 4.4 machine to the internet, I experience no disconnections whatsoever No... file transfers don't seem to work through ICQ over nat but let's face it.... that isn't really a loss is it ;-) Rgds. Scott Taggart ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kal Torak" To: "FreeBSD Stable" Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 1:17 AM Subject: ICQ with NAT problems > 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... > > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message