Re: ipchains & ICQ

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Andrew Basterfield wrote:
> 
> I have been trying to get ICQ to work on my masqueraded windoze box which
> talks to the net via my linux box.
> 
> in /etc/rc.d/rc.local...
> 
> ipchains -P forward deny
> ipchains -A forward -i ppp+ -j MASQ
> 
> and in /etc/services...
> 
> icq        4000/udp        # icq
> icq        4000/tcp        # icq
> 
> Suffice to say it doesn't connect. What am I missing?

 Not entirely sure I know exactly what everything does, but have a look
at the IP masq HOW-TO...in particular the script for rc.firewall. That`s
the one I use, and it works fine.
 I do NOT appear to have those two lines in my /etc/services file, and I
know I never added them to the std file.
 
 Baz.

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