XChat behind nat router

Thomas J.a.d.E at gmx.net
Wed Dec 10 21:33:34 UTC 2003


Alex White schrieb:

>Do you have connection tracking functioning? What sort of iptables 
>rules are you running as well. It could be that you're denying all 
>inbound traffic on accident, (I did this once and was frustrated for 
>days lol). Assuming that iptables is set up correctly and your forwards
>are correct, and the masquerading is right. You'll need some or all 
>of the following modules installed:
>
>ip_conntrack
>ip_conntrack_irc
>ip_nat_irc
>ip_conntrack_ftp <---- for ftping not specific to irc support.
>
>If your machines can get out to the internet without a problem, then I
>believe that these will be all the modules you really need in order to
>get your irc stuff working. I have however, been mistaken before. hehe 
>
>HTH
>
>Alex
>  
>
All right, i had an old iptabels rule enabled which forwarded a port 
range containing 6667 to the machine behind the nat. I didnt see that 
rule on the first look. I changed it to do nothing and everything works 
just fine, still thanx for holding my hand ;-)).

Thomas





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