AIM for routers

[WarriorPL]

Can someone send me the link to that version of AIM which is router friendly?

 

[the nature boy]

please elaborate.

 

[jnuts]

use trillian... It's router friendly..

 

[WarriorPL]

Trillian has too many glitches in it.

 

[jnuts]

I disagree with trillian having glitches, but that's not a big deal.

When you say router friendly AIM, what do you mean? I've run the AIM client from behind a router without any problems.

 

[WarriorPL]

When i first hooked up my router... i couldn't Direct Connect to anyone through AIM, either way. But now with the router friendly version, people can finally DC to me, and i can DC to only those with the same version on AIM which is better than nothing.
I found the link... if you want it tell me.

 

[jnuts]

sure, shoot me the link.

 

[the nature boy]

When i first hooked up my router... i couldn't Direct Connect to anyone through AIM, either way. But now with the router friendly version, people can finally DC to me, and i can DC to only those with the same version on AIM which is better than nothing.
I found the link... if you want it tell me.

I guess I'm confused as to what router friendly means. Friendly with your type of router?

 

[jnuts]

I guess I'm confused as to what router friendly means. Friendly with your type of router?

This is off the hip, but I'm guessing that AIM needs some random port with which to do direct connects. That often does not work with routers as there tends to be only certain ports open on them - unless you configure it differently. Some programs use random ports and that makes them difficult to configure for a router.

I'm guessing that AIM version routed the DC over port 80, or something that's commonly open.

 

[naturally anabolic]

best thread ever.

 

[WarriorPL]

http://www.aim.com/get_aim/win/win_beta.adp?aolperm=<%=$header%25

 

[jwill3:16]

im behind a switch and router no problems here

 

[gsxr1000]

All versions of AIM are router friendly. You need something that is NAT friendly. Network Address Translation, which routes packets between public & private IP addressed networks.

Yes, I think this is what you mean, But when I'm at home or the office I am behind a NAT and I can DC to other AIM people without any problem........I use Trillian also BTW.

 

[the nature boy]

This is off the hip, but I'm guessing that AIM needs some random port with which to do direct connects. That often does not work with routers as there tends to be only certain ports open on them - unless you configure it differently. Some programs use random ports and that makes them difficult to configure for a router.

I'm guessing that AIM version routed the DC over port 80, or something that's commonly open.

I'm pretty sure you can hard code a port it'll will use for file transfer/direct connect in all versions of AIM.