On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 19:40, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:23, Technoslick wrote: > > > So, what do you think? If 'licq' is running, is *it* requesting the > > ports or some other supporting program? If the latter, any idea what > > that/they might be? I would have thought someone using a Linksys > > Etherfast Cable/DSL Router would have dealt with this issue by now. It's > > a great feature that's not available in all firewalled routers. > > > > Thanks for a shot at anyway, Stephen. > > > > T > > >From what I understand about unix/linux networking, linux (the system > et. al.) is requesting the port be opened, whereas in Windows, the > program is requesting the port. A program under linux would communicate > directly to the kernel, then the kernel would manipulate whatever port > after that.
If this is what I have to go up against, it appears that I will have to open the ports manually or go into 'DMZ' for the length of session. That sucks. <sigh> I think I'll send an email off to Linksys and see if anyone there is playing with Linux while their on beating on M$ pud. I suspect they will tell me that's life and accept it. T <:0[
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