port forwarding....help!

diablo6speed

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I have ADSL and an actiontec router/modem all-in-one. I have dynamic ips and 3 computers on my network. I have played around with some port forwarding setting in an attempt to get mirc to use dcc sends and to get flashFXP to connect to ftps. Both have failed. I specified under dcc options to only use the ports that i have forwarded and the send always times out, never connects. On flash, i get "425 Cannot open data connection (10060)" i cant figure it out, can anyone help me? thanks
 

JackMDS

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Quote from: http://www.mirc.co.uk/help/proxies.html

The use of IRC includes the use of Ident services and DCC. mIRC has a built in IdentD or Ident server. This server listens on port 113 for Ident requests from the IRC server. The server uses this rather old fashioned system (they really should ditch it!) to confirm your identity. The server will ask mIRC, on port 113, to confirm the identity of the user (you). Of course mIRC will say 'Yup, that is okay - let him in!', replying with the system you use (UNIX) and your user ID (username, the first part of your email address).
DCC is used for file transfers and private chats between IRC users. By default DCC sessions use random port numbers above 1024, up to 5000.
As you see apart from the server ports (6660-6669) also ports 113 and a random range above 1024 are needed for your full IRC experience!