Quick (probably an RTFM) quesiton on IP Masq. and ICQ.

[Jerry Feldman {75562}]

Derek Martin wrote:

> Sure, but did you try having someone send files to you through ICQ?  Most
> features do work, but that and a few other, lesser used features don't
> work very well, because they try to connect directly to your client.
> They end up trying to connect to a port on the firewall (since as far as
> the ICQ server and their client is concerned, that's where your client
> is), and since there wasn't an initial connection from inside, there's no
> masquerade.
I saw something yesterday about how to set it up so that files can be
received. It might have been in the readme file for ip_masq-icq-055. I don't
recall the solution. Since my wife has a cable modem also, I can try to send
and receive files between the 2 Windows systems. 

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