At 18:21 13.12.99 +0200, Shaun Mumford wrote:
>I know it's not a firewall, but Messenger requires a setting to specify a
>proxy
What kind of proxy? Squid is an HTTP proxy. If Messenger does not
specify what kind of proxy it wants then most likely it wants a
Messenger proxy - an entirely different kind of animal.
>and then a SOCKS setting.
A-ha! So most probably you'll be best served with a SOCKS server
on your firewall.
> I have tried leaving out the proxy which should work
>with a transparant proxy server which I assume squid is
This assumption is wrong. Squid can be used, in conjunction with
a specially configured router, to make an (almost) transparent
HTTP proxy, nothing more.
> but the help says
>'make sure that outgoing TCP Port 1863 is open.' and I am not sure how to
>do that. You then specify no proxy in use.
This sounds rather like Messenger expects some sort of NAT.
-- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: Tilman.Schmidt@sema.de (office) Sema Group Koeln, Germany tilman@schmidt.bn.uunet.de (private)Received on Mon Dec 13 1999 - 10:37:03 MST
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