Re: DCC Send in conjunction with Iptables

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On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:56:42AM -0700, Ian wrote:
> Actually I suspect exactly the opposite is the case: xchat has formulated a
> DCC with the real public IP and the NAT functionality in the router is
> complaining that it can't properly change the outgoing DCC request for IP
> masquerading because of that.  (I'm a freebsd user so I'm not all that
> familiar with the iptables stuff.  But I've done some work on the DCC
> munging part of freebsd's natd.)
> 
> You need to configure xchat (I don't know how, I don't use it for DCC at
> all) to use the local LAN IP in the DCC requests so that the NAT router can
> properly transform the request as it goes out.  Another possibility is to
> configure the router to ignore DCC requests completely, then do a totally
> manual configuration to static-map a range of ports to the machine running
> xchat, then tell xchat to use only that port range for DCC (again I don't
> know how to tell xchat to do that).
> 
> -- Ian

That was exactly the problem!  Thanks so much! :)  I'm so happy that I
finally have DCC Send working.  I hated having to post things on my
website so people could download from me from there. :)

Jared
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