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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:57:15 -0500
From:      "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>
To:        <ben@housemixes.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problems with ICQ via NAT
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19991013135715.007fe100@midwest.net>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBIAHHOLCKLIMFDGFECEGMCIAA.ben@housemixes.com>

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Also you can't establish file transferes started by remote users, you can
install a socks5 proxy, or you can redirect some ports with NATD. I'm
pretty lazy so I've just redirected about 10 ports to my workstation on my
local network, and told ICQ to only use the ports from 2000 - 2015, 

221  ??  Ss     0:03.46 natd -interface ed1 -dynamic -config /etc/natd.conf
more /etc/natd.conf
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:2000 2000
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:2001 2001 
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:2002 2002
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:2003 2003
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:2004 2004
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:2005 2005
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:2006 2006
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:2007 2007 
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:2008 2008
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:2009 2009
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:2010 2010
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:2011 2011 
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:2012 2012
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:2013 2013
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:2014 2014
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:2015 2015
redirect_port udp 192.168.1.20:2213 2213
redirect_port tcp 192.168.1.20:21 2121


At 02:34 PM 10/13/99 -0400, Ben wrote:
>Hi, I am having problems with my ICQ via NAT in 3.1-release.  There are 2
>Windows machines behind the NAT running ICQ clients.  People on my ICQ list
>see me come on and offline quite often.  So I'm assuming that I am having
>problems sustaining a connection with the ICQ server, or the ICQ server is
>trying to send me a reply packet and it cant get through the firewall on
>4000.  I have no problems sending and receiving ICQ messages since the
>firewall option I have enabled is open.  It has no problems punching out a
>TCP port to establish a connection.  However I am seeing in my logs that
>there are UDP connections coming from the 205.188.153.* and 205.188.179.*
>via port 4000.  I've used the this to try and rectify this.
>



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