[H-GEN] ICQ through IPChains

Michael Anthon mca at tams.com.au
Sun Aug 22 22:06:08 EDT 1999


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I tried for a while to get ICQ working through IP masquerading.  Basically,
it sucks [1].  You may find that the masq connection to the ICQ server is
timing out.  There is an option in the ICQ firewall settings (assuming you
mean the windows version) that tells it that firewall session time out, this
might help with the disconnects.  

The biggest problem with ICQ though is that you need to open up a set of
ports for incoming messages and these ports need to be different for each
client.  This sort of port redirection causes all sorts of problems (or has
this been fixed with ipchains??).

I use a SOCKS5 for my ICQ connections, this works quite nicely and I have
very few problems.  It may also be worth investigating the ICQ ip masq
module at http://members.tripod.com/~djsf/masq-icq/ .  Last time I tried
this you had to patch the kernel and I was feeling particularly lazy, but I
just grabbed the latest version which no longer needs that step... just
going to try it myself

Cheers
Michael Anthon


[1] This is the correct technical term

<snip> 
> I have set up ipchains on my Linux box and almost all is 
> working fine.  I
> notice that my ICQ connection keeps dropping 
> off/on/off/on/... and it takes
> me ages to send a message, and more often than not I'm getting "Not
> connected to the ICQ network - send thru server" style messages.
> 

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