Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: Direct Connect?

[Evan S. <ev...@dr...>]

Direct Connect works poorly at best in Gaim, unfortunately... I'd be  
glad to help review patches to improve the situation.

1)  Router (NAT)) traversal isn't implemented; this would need to be  
done either at the Gaim core level (the UPnP implementation discussed  
on this list not too long ago) or at the oscar prpl level (the AIM  
proxy server which exists to serve as a middle man for such situations).
2) Firewalls can cause very similar problems.
3) Once the connection is established, transfer of images often  
freezes.  Only canceling the directIM will re-enable sending and  
receiving messages with the contact in question.  This happens not at  
a particular file size in general; however, it happens at the same  
percentage every time for a given file which won't transfer, if it  
fails at all.

(1) and (2) can be helped by having port 4443 opened and/or forwarded  
on both sides of the connection.

Hope that helps,
Evan
www.adiumx.com

On Jun 12, 2005, at 4:29 PM, Marcos Pinto wrote:

> yeah...this has come up before.  i did some testing on it back then.
> the boxes i used for the test were on two separate networks with no
> firewall on either.  i really dont understand the results, but
> hopefully someone here will.
> "...using two linux boxes, i was able to send and receive from both
> sides.  using a linux box along with a windows box for testing, i was
> able to send files from linux to windows, but not from windows to
> linux (both boxes running gaim 1.0.3).  i also tested with aol's
> client on the windows box and had the same results."
>
> On 6/12/05, Luke Schierer <lsc...@us...> wrote:
>
>> I am forwarding this to gaim-devel because I do not know the answer.
>>
>> luke
>>
>> ----- Forwarded message from Navid Nematollahi  
>> <phs...@ya...> -----
>>
>> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:03:37 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Navid Nematollahi <phs...@ya...>
>> To: lsc...@us...
>> Subject: Direct Connect?
>>
>> Hi.
>>      First off I want to tell you how much I love Gaim and how  
>> much better it is than AIM and other similar programs.  I just had  
>> one question, when I want to direct connect with someone be it  
>> someone who is using AIM or Gaim it always take a long time and  
>> always says it failed.  I at first thought it might be my firewall  
>> but then I disabled all of that and it still wasn't direct  
>> connecting.   I logged on using AIM and it worked fine.  Could you  
>> help me out?
>>
>> Thank you so much,
>> Navid
>>
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