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This one has additional command line options, some notes on troubleshooting, and a contributed spec file from Sean. Also in there is a sample redhat installation section I put together.

The seventh release is now available, and contains a workaround for older AIM clients, and a typographical fix when using the BSD packet filter.

ReAIM is an AOL Instant Messenger Proxy for iptables-based firewalls. It allows direct connections to be made to hosts behind an address-translating firewall. MSN and Windows Messenger are also supported. It has been quite a while, but with the fixes to Messenger transfers, and the new support for NetBSD, it seemed like time to cut the next release.

IMPORTANT: Please be aware that you have to add a new range of ports to your firewall rules for direct connections to work with this release.... read more

This release fixes a logging bug which causes a crash if an onward connection fails.

This release fixes a bug in MSN transfer support if malformed packets are received. Also in this version is a step towards a more traditional demon with logging to a file added.

This release has initial support for file transfers using the Beast of Redmond's client.

It uses a pretty simple pseudo-http scheme for passing data around that is easy to proxy. Be warned though, that support is incomplete and it will hangup the msn transfers until the proxy is restarted if more than one is on the pending_msn_track list at the same time.

Okay - I didn't have time to actually make any more of the infrastructure changes, but as I see folk have started to download the 0.1 tarball, I made a snapshot of current CVS.

Please don't look too hard at the 0.1 code as it's such a horrid hack. 0.2 is a little bit more architected now that 0.1 has shown me the concept of minimally massaging the passing OSCAR packets works well enough to do NAT-aware DCCs.

Okay....I released the 0.1 version of the proxy. The code is horrendously ugly, but as a quick hack 'proof of concept', it 'works for me'.

Current CVS has a much cleaner structure, and I'll be making a 0.2 release soon. There is some promise in the filter structure for adding a 'virus checking filter', or 'system logging filter'.