gaim and NAT on both sides (was Re: Instant messenger on Linux)

D. D. Brierton darren at dzr-web.com
Tue Sep 21 17:29:56 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 17:58, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Apropos gaim as instand messenger: anyone of you gaim users able to
> establish a connection to a remote partner (ICQ) using NAT on his side
> when you are using gaim behind a NAT router too?

I don't seem to have any problem doing that: I regularly IM friends
using gaim who I know have a wireless network in their flat and which
uses NAT, and I too have a wireless network using NAT. I didn't do
anything special to set it up, it just worked "out of the box".

Best, Darren

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