[JDEV] reaching Jabber through firewalls

[Chris Wilkes]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:29:39PM +0100, Rob Davis :: Solaris Media wrote:
> 
> Thanks D,
> 
> Does anyone have anything to say on this issue:
> 
> > By the way, has anyone had any luck with running Jabber on
> > multiple ports, so that a Flash client behind a firewall can try
> > several options to connect? Or has anyone tried any other methods
> > so that users behind firewalls can use a Flash client?

Your best bet in this case is to have a firewall in front of the jabber
server that redirects all incoming requests to the jabber port(s) on the
jabber server.  That's pretty easy to do with IP tables.

This is more of a topic for the jadmin mailing list.

Chris