On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Has anyone had any experience configuring ICQ with the
> > Firebox II? I've
> > opened up UDP port 4000 and TCP port 2109, but we are still
> > having problems
> > connecting the ICQ client.
> >
> >
> That's a known problem. It works sometimes. The problem is that the ICQ
> client uses dynamic ports and the FW blocks those ports.
> For what security concerns, it's not such a good idea to open those ports,
> but that's your decision.
Though 3rd party programs like licq have firewall options, and allow
you to specify a [tcp] port range to use. Not greatly secure, but at
least better than openning the whole lot.
I have a small mod to the licq source to allow a udp range to be
specified. Been meaning to send it off to the maintainers.
Mark
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