Re: icq through masqueraded firewall /socks4

[Tom Massey <tom_massey@dingoblue.net.au>]

Paul Haesler wrote:
> 
> 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).

Have you tried using the ip_masq_icq module from
<http://members.tripod.com/~djsf/masq-icq/>? I used it with a 2.2.19
kernel in a similar situation. You need to add something like this to
your firewall script:

insmod ip_masq_icq
ports=4000,4001,4002,4003,4004,4005,4006,4007,4008,4009,4010,4011
range=60200,61000 tcp_timeout=14400 tcp_fin_timeout=60 limit=512 log=i

And possibly set ICQ to use those ports (I have a vague recollection
that it does so by default anyway). Or upgrade to a 2.4 kernel -
iptables is very much nicer for doing this. :-)