Fred, I would guess that 99.999999999999999999% of all clients need the registry. Perhaps a professional oversight from the developers but none the less try to copy the below 3 lines and save the file as something like imnat.reg then run it on the clients.
<copy next 3 lines> REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ipswitch\Messenger\Version 1.0\Settings] "Client Uses NAT"=dword:00000001 <copy above 3 lines> ~Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fred > Stover > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 5:48 AM - FamHost > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [IpswitchIM_Forum] network usage > > > I'm new to the evaluation of this product and have ran into the nat thing. > > My question is, what percent of client's end up needing their registry > tweaked and why can't the client install set the nat setting on > by default? > > Thanks, > > Fred > > -----Original Message----- > From: nic. schellekens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 5:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [IpswitchIM_Forum] network usage > > > Hello all, at present we're running a test system on a PII 266 > with 128 Mhz > of Ram and about 40 gigs HD space. > We have several testing members from all over the planet who are > testing the > thing to destruction (which to my happyness hasn't happened yet). > > Even with the NAT trick in place, (and therefore continuous traffic going > on, the network usage (on our dedicated T2) is neglible. We have seen > converstations with 40 people going on for hours on end, and it wasn't > noticed. We serve about 45 Gigs per 3 days in data, running quite some > server park, and yet again the traffic caused by IIM is not even really > noticeable. We have tested stuff by shutting down ALL systems > except the IIM > server and asked the whole team to start sending (including some > hefty data > files) > > Not a problem, max bandwith was about 15 Kbps to 64 KBps (caused > by one twat > throwing a 300 MB file into a conversation.. > > In short, even ifn there are continuous connections, it is very light > footed. > > Nic > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/ipswitchim_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: > http://www.ipswitch.com/support/Instant_Messenger/index.asp > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/ipswitchim_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: > http://www.ipswitch.com/support/Instant_Messenger/index.asp > ___________________________________________________________________ > Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. > > ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/ipswitchim_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/Instant_Messenger/index.asp
