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Title: AmIRC DCC Send Problems
Post by: on December 13, 2002, 04:05:36 AM

I cannot DCC send from my Amiga.  I can DCC receive fine.

My setup is as follows: A1200, OS3.9, MiamiDX1.0c, AmIRC3.5.25, and I am connected to the outside through my Linksys BEFS41 Cable/DSL Router.

The distant computer sees the request coming from 192.168.1.3 (my internal IP address) instead of my 24.x.x.x external address.

I have TIADCC set in ENV:, the ports open through the router, and the TIADCC settings set in AmIRC, but it still doesn't work.

I know I am prolly missing the obvious, but I can really use the help.

Thanks

Title: Re: AmIRC DCC Send Problems
Post by: on December 21, 2002, 09:50:54 PM

Come on guys!

I know someone out there knows the answer to this one.

Anyone?

Title: Re: AmIRC DCC Send Problems
Post by: Mad-Matt on December 21, 2002, 10:58:59 PM

Disable From ENV in TiaDCC, and try instead to use the Host string. Set the INTERNET ip there.

My router doesnt give me enough control over its firewall so instead I have to also use the routers DMZ function.

Other then that ya should be fine, mirroring the ports in the fire wall that you have set in tiadcc.

Title: Re: AmIRC DCC Send Problems
Post by: Rigger on December 21, 2002, 11:21:56 PM

Sounds like your AmIRC is using your internal IP address instead of the external address. I've emailed you an arexx script to your Amiga.org address that I wrote to pull the external IP address from the router and load it into your ENV:hostname file. Once you install the script check the box to have the hostname from ENV: in your AmIRC network settings. Should get to you it your email forwarding is set up here.

Title: Re: AmIRC DCC Send Problems
Post by: on December 24, 2002, 06:08:58 AM

Thanx Rigger.

I swear I tried everything your script did, but now it works.

I set my AmIRC TIADCC settings to get my hostname from ENV:, the port range from 1045-1055, and checked the "Use TIADCC" box.

I set the Linksys up to allow 1045-1050 through to my internal IP address 192.168.1.3... and presto.

Thanks for the script.  It worked.

Title: Re: AmIRC DCC Send Problems
Post by: Rigger on December 24, 2002, 11:49:56 AM

Glad it worked for you. I put literaly weeks of research into solving that same problem when I got my BEFSR41 router. It's a great little box to get a simple network running fast. Now I run a Linux server as my gateway/router and can use simple resolve to my domain name to get the hostname value.

I stopped working on the arexx script once I changed over to the Linux server. I guess I'll go ahead and do a little cleaning up on the script and post it to aminet for others to use.

Wow, I actually contributed something useful here, for once. hehe....