Re: GAIM not capable of sending files, but can receive

O. Hartmann wrote:
Armin Pirkovitsch wrote:
O. Hartmann wrote:

Sorry, maybe a little bit off-topic here.

I tried using GAIM as IM, but ran into trouble. Receiving documents is
working, but with or without any kind of firewall sending files is not
possible.

The GAIM installation is as is taken from the ports collection, firewall
disabled ... Tried ICQ/MSN/Yahoo and IRC, always the same, no sending,
but receiving ...

Any help appreciated,


Are you connceted directly to the net or over a router / server with nat?
If it's not directly you have to forward ports to the client pc for
direct connections (like file sending)


My box at home is connected to the net via a DSL router. The box has a
192.168.xxx.xxx Ip, and therefore, I think you sketched the problem the
right way. Is there a way to do this automatically via pf(1)? It would
be weird to forward each connection, most of them DHCP obtained IPs, by
hand. Sorry, I'm not very familiar with that stuff ...

Well the portforward has to be done on the router, and the clients need
to know which ports they "own" on the inet ip. It's part of the file
sending protocol (at least icq and irc work that way)
So a portforward table which defines which ports are forwarded to which
ip is imho the only option.

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Armin Pirkovitsch
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