I agree. I had this problem when sending messages to friends who were on a LAN with the same subnet of ip's. I'd suggest using a different subnet -- 192.168.1.0, or the 10.x.x.x net.
Matt On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 07:20:43PM -0500, Wolf J.Flywheel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 16:46, Tim van Erven wrote: > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd like licq to run on IP 192.168.0.1 instead of public IP > > > and I'm searching for "directive" or something to write > > > to licq.conf. > > > > > > (ie. in windoze ICQ from Mirabilis, you can select from > > > internal IP, external IP or you can specify your own IP) > > > Anything related to where you want to go? Otherwise, could you > > elaborate some more on why you are trying to get Licq to 'run on IP > > 192.168.0.1'? Are you trying to use it for internal communications or > > something? > > The reason he's asking this, Ales, is because 192.168.0.1 is what's > known as a "non-routable" IP. Computers outside your LAN are not able > to send packets there because they would never make it past the first > router they hit -- 192.* IPs are reserved for internal communications. > So, allowing other ICQ clients to see you as 192.168.0.1 would cause > them to think you were on their own network, and you'd never get their > messages. > > At least, that's how it looks from this end. :) > > - -- > // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E > // > // "When two hydrogen atoms love each other very much, > // they bond with an oxygen atom..." --Trance Gemini, Andromeda > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE8YchblLp/6lAjjZ4RAogiAJ9jecShqhsrpAFEIcEJrkkFpxvwnwCg+lQ9 > RDmjINFF09H94Ls1Z6Z2K98= > =7oFH > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Licq-main mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/licq-main -- / - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Even though the annual kill ratio of tobacco vs. | marijuana is more than 400,000 to zero, if you | sell one of the products you are considered an | upstanding citizen. If you sell the other | product, you deserve and get jail or prison | and are considered by many people a low-life | scumbag. \ - - - - - _______________________________________________ Licq-main mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/licq-main
