On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:34:44PM -0600, Matt Reinhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 07:20:43PM -0500, Wolf J.Flywheel wrote:
>> On Wednesday 06 February 2002 16:46, Tim van Erven wrote:
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> I'd like licq to run on IP 192.168.0.1 instead of public IP
>>>> and I'm searching for "directive" or something to write
>>>> to licq.conf.
>>>>
>>>> (ie. in windoze ICQ from Mirabilis, you can select from
>>>> internal IP, external IP or you can specify your own IP)
>>>
>>> Anything related to where you want to go? Otherwise, could you
>>> elaborate some more on why you are trying to get Licq to 'run on IP
>>> 192.168.0.1'? Are you trying to use it for internal communications or
>>> something?
>>
>> The reason he's asking this, Ales, is because 192.168.0.1 is what's
>> known as a "non-routable" IP. Computers outside your LAN are not able
>> to send packets there because they would never make it past the first
>> router they hit -- 192.* IPs are reserved for internal communications.
>> So, allowing other ICQ clients to see you as 192.168.0.1 would cause
>> them to think you were on their own network, and you'd never get their
>> messages.
>>
>> At least, that's how it looks from this end. :)
>
> I agree. I had this problem when sending messages to friends who were on a
> LAN with the same subnet of ip's. I'd suggest using a different subnet --
> 192.168.1.0, or the 10.x.x.x net.
Hmm, sounds like a really desperate work-around to me that should never
be necessary.
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Tim van Erven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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