ICQ and masqueraded clients- is module written yet?

Hello,

I'm using kernel 2.4 with iptables, and I masquerade intranet clients
with it. Users want to use ICQ (ICQ 2000/licq). I know, there was an icq module for ipchains, but I want to use iptables.
Has anyone written the module yet, or have anyone a trick to make it
fully useable?

Thanks:
Adam Nemeth

Udvozlettel:
				Nemeth Adam <[email protected]>

For the record, it has been stated by the core team that they will not write a module for an app that has a proprietary
component,
and since the ICQ server is proprietary, they won't write the
module.

On the positive side, ICQ will work natively through an
IPTABLES firewall,
although direct connections from client to client will not
work. File transfers
are at best iffy as to if they'll work ...The clients need only
be configured to
send through server.

Since IPTABLES is on my system only for the home/DMZ and there
are only
four clients that use ICQ here, I've allocated a range of ports
for each client in
the 4000 range and put in rules to DNAT the connections on
those ports, plus
configured the clients to use only those ports for transfers
(ICQ Firewall settings)

	...	 
	This is acceptable to me, but I imagine that on the scale of an 

ISP that it would be
annoying if the ISP were assigning clients non-routable IP's.
If the ISP is
assigning routable IP's then ICQ will work fine with no
adjustments to the firewall
between the ISP clients and the Internet.

I am using socks (dante) for ICQ only and work great !! Regards,

Diego

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nemeth Adam" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 23, 1998 5:07 AM
Subject: ICQ and masqueraded clients- is module written yet?