Hey all, I have a bit of an issue here. In my household are 2 PCs: My dual-boot debian/winXP box, and my girlfriend's win98. We're both plugged directly into the LAN side of a NAT router/firewall, whose WAN side is plugged into our DSL adapter. Using Trillian under windo~1, we both get flawless ICQ connectivity... not using any port-forwarding or any such. Under debian, I can't seem to get a client to work. GnomeICU will send and receive messages, initiate/accept chat mode, and other people can see my status, but everybody always looks offline to me (except 2 users, whose statuses update fine. No clue why they're special). GAIM just loses a huge percentage (50%?, 75%?) of my outgoing messages. And Alicq seems to have imploded on install. Run it and it just exits instantly with an error message (something about username or password not supplied, IIRC), and when I edit its config file, I get one long line of non-ascii garbage. Needless to say, I'm using GnomeICU, 'cause it's limping along better than the competition. But how do I fix this? Is there some port I need to forward for the "so-and-so is online" packets to get in? Is there a client for Linux that's as smart as the windo~1 ones (to work behind a firewall without port forwarding)? BTW, if there's a solution that will work and is not Gnome-specific, that would be a bonus. I'm using gnome 'cause it was the default, but I'll probably be shopping for a lighter faster window manager at some point in the not-too-distant future. Thanks for any help -Chris
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