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Re: AmIRC issues...
« on: September 05, 2004, 11:18:06 PM »
If you're behind a router, there's two things you need to do to be able to send dcc with AmIRC (receiving is always ok).

1) You have to forward the DCC ports to your computer running AmIRC. You can select these yourself with the last AmIRC beta, I recommend 1045-1055 (1 for each file being DCC'd simultaneously.

2) If you don't have a static IP or some kind of DNS address (or manually set your IP in AmIRC each time you're online), you'll have to run some script to tell AmIRC what your IP address is, otherwise it'll use your LAN one, and this won't work. SetTIADCC (on Aminet) will do this; set it to be run when AmIRC starts.

Note that software routers with conntrack properly set up don't suffer from 2).
 

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Re: AmIRC issues...
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2004, 02:13:31 AM »
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alberonn wrote:
Seeing what goes in there told me I misread what you told me. Yeah, I guess I do need the script to get my actual IP address? LOL


Yeah, you need it to get your internet IP address. AmIRC is dumb and will use your LAN one otherwise, and so the DCC will go nowhere. AmIRC doesn't know what IP-NAT is.

Not sure why the script isn't being run on start, since it sounds like you set it up just right. Very strange.