[squid-users] paltalk and yahoo ports

From: myehyd com <myhyd@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:16:15 +0500

Hi,i need help in making paltalk work on network.paltalk is currently
blocked cuase yahoo voice chat uses same TCP port 5001 for voice.related
firewall command in rc.d/rc.local is

/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -s 192.168.0.0/24 --dport 5001 -j DROP

if i disable it,paltalk works but users start using yahoo voice chat and
file upload which congest the
upstream link ,paltalk uses destination network address 199.0.0.0. i tried 2
implement following but still not working

/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp - d 199.0.0.0/8 --dport 5001 -j ACCEPT

even i tried
/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -d ! 199.0.0.0/8 --dport 5001 -j DROP

can anyone suggest me how 2 make paltalk work keeping yahoo thing.i will
appreciate ur help
Regards
Muzammil
MYEHYDERABAD.COM
HYDERABAD,PAKISTAN

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