Thanks Peter that's better.. but for our environment, coupled with workstations from w95 to XP and with/without client firewalling, along with routers most always using NAT these days we'd be better off just installing all clients with both ports wide open and the registry addition.
Any chance that IPSwitch will release a patch for the registry addition to the client side software? If not please let me know and I'll put a free registry toggle app up on one of our sites for download that will help most typical users of IIM. ~Rick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Mourfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:18 PM - SATCOM Subject: Re: [IpswitchIM_Forum] Recap the port issue and NAT Flag > By default, the server listens (accepts incoming connections) on 5177 and the client listens (accepts incoming connections) on 5178. If all of the clients have the 'Client Uses Nat' value set to "1" then only the server is listening (on 5177). > > 5177 inbound to the server. > 5177 outbound from the clients. > > 5178 outbound from the server.* > 5178 inbound to the clients.* > * Not necessary if ALL clients have the 'Client Uses Nat' value set to "1" > ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/ipswitchim_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/Instant_Messenger/index.asp
