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Date:      Sat, 1 Apr 2000 09:31:56 -0500
From:      "C J Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net>
To:        "Sarton O'Brien" <roguetr@patho.gen.nz>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: ppp -nat port redirection
Message-ID:  <NDBBILKDCLLECBCLPMBIKEBLCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net>
In-Reply-To: <38E44D56.85B45B95@patho.gen.nz>

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What version of FreeBSD are you running?  Maybe it's the ppp that's causing
the problem.  I'm not quite sure.

-Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Sarton O'Brien [mailto:roguetr@patho.gen.nz]
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 2:02 AM
To: C J Michaels
Subject: Re: ppp -nat port redirection


> Hey no problem.  ICQ doesn't have specific port ranges it uses.  It's
fairly
> random.
>
> You have 3 options as I see it:
> 1. Live with the way ICQ performs behind nat (yuck).
> 2. Install a SOCKS5 proxy (semi-yuck, but it works better).
> 3. Reserve a small range of ports for each machine running icq.  Then
> configure ICQ to be behind a firewall and to only use those port ranges.
> That's actually what the example below is used for.
>
> I've done all three.  I've currently using 2 out of necessity (isp issue,
> don't ask) but when I was able to use option 3 it worked the best.
>
> Hope this helps.
> -Chris

I seemed to get it going with setup No. 3, for one file transfer and
then it stopped.

Icq is setup correctly and I have nailed the problem back to nat. I
tested by specifying one port:

nat port udp 192.168.0.2:30000 30000

and it redirected as required. I then tried specifying the range:

nat port udp 192.168.0.2:30000-30500 30000-30500

and port 30000 would still redirect but nothing else within the range.
When specifying a range, no
redirction, sigular port, redirection. I'm stumped. I seem to be
specifying everything correctly.

Once again, thanks for your help.

Sarton O'Brien

PS. Still at home with no mailing list, CC is appreciated.



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