Re: ICQ over IP Masquerading

[Michael Beattie <mickyb@es.co.nz>]

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Paul Miller wrote:

> 
> Has anyone gotten ICQ to work over Linux IP Masquerading?  Someone said
> something about telling Linux that ICQ uses ports 2000 to 4000, but I don't
> know what to do with them or how.  Can anyone help?
> 

My friends Windoze box has no problems with ICQ, It worked out of the box.
Except for clients trying to initiate connections to him of course.

I have got a VERY basic set of ipfwadm rules though..

#! /bin/sh
ipfwadm -F -p deny
ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0

Simple enough?

                       Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)

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