Re: icq through masqueraded firewall /socks4
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Paul Haesler wrote:
> Ah forget it. It seems to work with outsiders - it's just transfers
> between clients on the LAN that doesn't work.
>
> Of course there are better ways to transfer files on the LAN than
> icq. But it makes it difficult to test things. Is there anything I can
> do to the proxy server to make this sort of thing work. (internal
> client to internal client transfers mediated by an external server
> through socks4 proxy)? Listen on the loopback address maybe?
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Look, I'm trying to get icq working on windoze client computers
> > on the private LAN through a Debian masquerading gateway
> > (ipchains - kernel 2.2.19).
> >
> > It used to work with just port forwarding but since upgrading to
> > icq 2000b, user to user file transfers and voice messages
> > don't work anymore.
> >
> > I've tried switching to a socks4 proxy server as that seemed to
> > be better supported by icq. ICQ is connecting through
> > the socks4 proxy fine, but file transfers still don't work (at least
> > between clients on the LAN)
> >
just a thought:
I tried icq the other night through kernel 2.4 masqerading and it worked
automagically
cheers
dc
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