On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 21:48, Thomas Reitelbach wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 05 October 2002 17:45, Magnus Mager wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to this mailing list, so hello everybody! > > Hello Magnus :) > > > I have a problem according licq 1.2.0a. > > When I try to send a message direct to an user, it won't work - only > > messages via the server will work. - This appears even if I use the V8 > > protocoll. So no direkt connection can be made (the other side is an ICQ > > 2002a client with the direct connection to older clients allowed) from licq > > to any other and vicy versa. > > I guess the other user is behind a masquerading firewall, too. > For me direct connections do work very well, i'm sitting behind a masquerading > firewall, too. If the other person sits behind a firewall it is required that > at least one packet went through the server and you received a answer. Then > your masqerading firewall can "remember" the connection and afterwards direct > sending should be possible. > There is not much that you can do about this, it's a general problem with > masquerading (think of FTP for example), not a licq problem. If everything > fails you can configure licq to use some specific ports and then configure > your firewall to forward these ports to your PC. For example you can try a > port range from 40000-400010. >
Wow, forwarding 360.010 ports? Damn! I hope my firewall can bear with it... ;-) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Licq-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/licq-devel
