On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 21:48, Thomas Reitelbach wrote:
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> 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... ;-)




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