[JDEV] JIT - ICQ Transport release

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On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Matthias Wimmer wrote:

>> Why are too many ports bad?
> 1. scalability (you can have at most 65535 listening sockets per IP)
> 2. security
>     a) Managing of firewall in front of the server
>     b) outgoing connections to the ICQ-server are less vulnerable then
> to listen for incomming connections that can be established by any
> internet host
>     c) harder to keep track on what is going on

That's true. However, one can run the transport on a machine not
firewalled and/or limit direct connections to outgoing direct connections
(which work fine, too. Machine looks like NATted then. As soon as the
NATted machine messages a non-NATted one, a direct connection will be
established).

libicq2000 seems to support disabling incoming direct connections
(Client::setAcceptInDC(bool d)) without sacrificing direct connection
functionality completely.

But AFAICS JIT uses a rather heavily modified libicq2000 without sigslots
and all that?

Regards