On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Ron wrote: > I'm trying to give a Windows 98 machine Chat access through my Linux > firewall. I've searched around and understand that it isn't as easy as > opening port 6667. > > Thank you in advance. I sure hope this qualifies as a linux-net > question. What happens is probably that you open a local port with MS Chat, and then you connect to port 6667 of the server. So, this packet from MS Chat gets out if you open like you said, but the packets coming back to port XXXXX on your machine are "firewalled". At least I assume this is what happens. One possible solution is MASQ. -- Ketil Froyn The probability of someone University of Oslo watching you is proportional Norway to the stupidity of your action. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
