On Saturdayen den 24 November 2001 23.28, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> > > Hmm. Not sure. :-(
> > >
> > > What happens when that happens, does it kick you offline?
> >
> > No, this happened when I tried to logon. It occured several times.
> > Restarting X + KDE solved the problem as it seems. I think I had this
> > problem one year ago on windoze and behind a "Secure Zone" firewall.
> >
> > As I remember the fix was to force the client to logon to the icq login
> > server using port 4000, and have that udp port open for incoming traffic
> > through the firewall.
> >
> > Why it works now could probably be because I used my old licq config
> > where this setup is set, I don't know, I have to try to reproduce this
> > later.
>
> Ok I've worked out why.
>
> There's a limit as to how many times you can sign on with the same IP with
> the same ICQ number.
>
> If you get kicked offline very often and you had to re-sign on again all
> the time this would be the most likely cause.
>
> Otherwise, probably you have found a real genuine bug ...

You're right. This is exactly the problem I had with the windows client, I 
probably remembered it wrong. Anyway there really where a setting in the 
windows v2000 something client that solved this, but I don't use that shitty 
os anymore..., and I don't remember the exact fix for it. I don't think it's 
a Licq bug, it's a feature...

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