From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 14 1:10: 7 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 01:10:03 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trill.hh.se (trill.hh.se [194.47.5.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9E637B400 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 01:10:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from gs177.gsten.hh.se (chip@L22-212.gsten.hh.se [194.47.16.177]) by trill.hh.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA21892; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:09:50 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001213135421.A1202@datasphereweb.com> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:09:50 +0100 (CET) Sender: chip@L22-212.gsten.hh.se From: Joel Bjork To: David Subject: Re: Problems with ICQ Through NAT Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Rudderham Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13-Dec-00 David wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:40:51PM -0400, Matt Rudderham wrote: >> Hi, >> I've been having trouble using ICQ on Windows Clients going through my >> FreeBSD 4.0-Release box running natd / ipfw. I've done a search of the >> archives, one suggestion was adding some redirect ports 5000-5031, >> that >> being done, it didn't make a difference. The problem only seems to >> occur >> when communicating with other users who are behind a firewall. I'm >> thinking >> maybe a proxy would fix the problem. I've never set one up before, >> could >> anyone recommend one? I've heard lots about Squid. Of course if anyone >> can >> offer a solution that doesn't involve a proxy I'd be quite happy:) > I have ICQ working and have the following 2 rules in my ruleset for > ipfw: ># Allow ICQ Server Packets > add allow tcp from any 5190 to any via tl0 > ># Allow ICQ Client-to-Client communications > add allow tcp from any 1024-65535 to any 1024-65535 in recv tl0 > > I would also suggest installing /usr/ports/net/socks5. Yes, socks5 is the way to go, I tried the portforwarding thing but I could never get it to work properly. Another plus is that you probably have a few other applications that will work better with socks5. The manpages doesn't help much so I used this page to set it up: http://dcfonline.sfu.ca/ying/linux/socks5/index.html socks5.conf goes in /usr/local/etc/ if you put it there you can start the proxy with: #socks5 -t ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Joel Bjork Date: 14-Dec-00 Time: 10:09:50 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message