----- Original Message ----- From: "FemmeFatale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 06:40 Subject: Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically opening ports in Linksys router]
<snipped> > > Rikona has hit it. ICQ does this as well it seems as if you look on the > net ICQ tries to use / request (I joke not) 64,000 *yes THOUSAND* > Ports! jesus... no wonder IT security guys hate ICQ. > > ------------- > FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt actually ICQ -> Preferences -> Connections -> User if under Advanced Users, you select a small range of say 5-20 ports depending on your usage, and open/forward those incoming ports on your firewall, many icq "advanced" features will work. for example, i could never do file transfer behind my mandrake 9.0/shorewall gateway until i changed this. ymmv
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