Server Help

[Animate Dreams]

I'm running SP2 Corporate, it was the one before the home release.

[Solo Ace]

Whatever, what we're talking about now isn't my main issue with Messenger anyway.

All wired computers couldn't keep a connection up with a Messenger client, and on Mac OS X I had the same problem with Adium. I think that's enough to say I'll need to improve connectivity, probably by adding uPnP.

I'm having a seperate box which I'm installing pfSense to.

I didn't think pfSense's website looked really attractive and the way they wrote things in pfSense's webGui look less professional than in m0n0's.
But, I'm willing to try pfSense, because it might solve my problems if I install uPnP.

There we go. pfSense is running, booted from hard drive.
Wait, uh, I just installed uPnP by just clicking 'Install this package', shit.

Ok, done. Messenger says
"You are connected to the internet through a trapped UPnP symmetric NAT."
instead of
"You are connected to the internet through a non-UPnP for a port limited NAT.".

I hope this allows me to actually have faster file transfers and, most important, let my connection stay up.

[Solo Ace]

Just to confirm my earlier thoughts. My problem with MSN is solved by uPnP.

The bad thing is, the box I use MSN on sometimes appears to be running .exe files I have no idea where they come from.

I think that's because I left Hamachi running without turning the option:

Code: Show/Hide [ ] Block vulnerable Microsoft Windows services

on, and has nothing to do with the uPnP feature I added to my firewall (pfSense, the m0n0wall rip-off).

To stay on the same platform of m0n0/pfS, I'm now looking into FreeNAS for LAN file storage.
My friends know what I'm planning to do, and want access to the server. I'm not so sure, I don't think their ideas behind this file sharing are even legal and probably not even really worth spending some expensive line to.

[Guest]

i keep getting disconnected with windows live messenger.
like every few seconds and minutes, its getting very irritating.
i start a convo and automatically get disconnected and it keeps occuring.
help anyone?

[Samapico]

I know it happens sometimes... probably when their server is overloaded. Happens to me maybe once every... 6 months or something. But if it happens for many days in a row, I don't know... you sure it's not your connection that fails?


nice bump too you did bring something new so its fine though
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[Solo Ace]

The built-in connection troubleshooter is pretty effective for the basic networking problems with Messenger.

Read this to get started.

Does your router/NAT run uPnP?