[plug] Masquerading ICQ?

[Ben Jensz]

Yeah, I've got mine set to permanent (LAN) as the connection type and under
the proxy section on the second tab across, I've got it set to "using
firewall" and "not using proxy" and it works fine for me, chat and file
transfers.


/ Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: Kai <vk6ksj at siwa.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Masquerading ICQ?


> Brian,
>
> Have you told ICQ in Preferences and under Connection that your connecting
> over a LAN?
> If I tell ICQ I'm connecting with my phone line, logging on is OK but file
> transfer and chat don't work - with it set to LAN it works fine.
>
> Something not quite right in your masq/firewalling rules, maybe?
>
> /Kai
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Tombleson" <brian at paradigmit.com.au>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 10:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [plug] Masquerading ICQ?
>
>
> > Well, I can 'use' ICQ in a similar situation, but I can't do chat with
> > someone else that is masqueraded and I can't transfer files.  I think
> > there's a couple of other things I can't do, but I don't use it that
much
> :)
> >
> > I *can* chat with people who have a live IP (eg. people that dial direct
> > into their ISP).
> >
> > There is a module of some sort that will get ICQ working perfectly
(well,
> as
> > perfectly as any Windows prog) for versions of ICQ prior to 2000, but
I've
> > never done it personally.
> >
> > HTH.
> > - Brian.
>
>