Re: ICQ with debian firewall

[Andreas Muck <ml@chapulin.de>]

"Kyle Peterson" <kyle.peterson@sk.sympatico.ca> writes:

>Hello everyone.  I'm planning on changing my network router from Sygate 4.0
>on a Win NT 4.0 server to a debian ip masq machine.  Right now, ICQ is
>working excellent with sygate.  How does it work with IP masq?  When I set
>the firewall rules, to I have to open ports on the firewall, or just have
>them forwarded to the right machines using ipmasqadm?

I'd suggest using a socks server on the router. Works flawlessly with
ICQ, including incoming and outgoing file transfers, chat and
everything else.