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Re: masquerading woes with icq




I also encountered the "old messages keep coming back" problem, with an
open source Win32 ICQ client - so its definatly a protocol problem.

Oded

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Sagi Bashari wrote:

> From: Sagi Bashari <sagi@boom.org.il>
> To: mulix <mulix@actcom.co.il>, linux-il@linux.org.il
> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:27:01 +0200
> X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1]
> Subject: Re: masquerading woes with icq
>
> Hi mulix
>
> I've experienced one of the problems that you mentioned , 2 - keeps getting
> old messages - when using licq, it seems like the icq servers only support
> the 2000 protocol "well" now, so older versions might have some problems..
>
> However after logging to my account using the ICQ.com java client and reading
> those messages, it seems like the problem is gone.
>
> So you might want to try to upgrade the client first before blaming your
> masquerading setup.
>
> Also try to check the LICQ mailing list archive, there are some threads about
> such problems there as well..
>
> Sagi
>
> On Sunday 04 November 2001 23:51, mulix wrote:
> > hi guys,
> >
> > i have a problem with icq malfunctioning in a masquerading setup. the
> > icq client, version 0.99b, is running on a windows 98SE laptop, and
> > masquerading is provided by a linux machine running kernel 2.4.13.
> >
> > the problem is that the icq client only partially works. by this i
> > mean that:
> >
> > 1. the user is never seen as online by other users.
> > 2. keeps getting old messages over and over.
> > 3. does not get status change notifications when other people go
> > online or offline.
> > 4. (sometimes) sends messages and people do not receive them.
> >
> > i'm working on the assumption that it's a flaw in either my
> > masquerading setup, or the icq protocol. a web search shows an icq_masq
> > module for 2.2 kernels, but i could not find such a module for 2.4 kernels.
> >
> > so: does anyone have such a setup, working? if yes, just how did you get
> > it to work??
> >
> > thanks in advance!
>
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