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Re: NAT with iptables: dealing with MSN messenger.



On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:35:37PM -0800, calyth wrote:
> Yes I know, MSN messenger isn't that great.
> I have this problem: all my computers goes through a NAT "firewall" 
> using iptables, and with the current rules, I could definately do MSN 
> (as an IM agent) and receive files with it; however, it cannot send 
> files. I suspect that there needs to be some packet mangling, but I 
> don't know what.
> Is there anyone here that knew how to get the whole thing working? Or 
> shall I start looking into using squid as a transparent proxy to get 
> this thing through?

I'd start by searching the debian-firewall list archives at
http://lists.debian.org/ and then, if you can't find an answer, asking
on that list, since no one here seems to know the answer.

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Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org>				http://ertius.org/

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