I dug a little deeper and found out that the office uses a firewall/esafe
combination that uses stateful packet inspection and will block any traffic
that is not HTTP traffic over any port. This is a little out of my
security/networking league, but I think that means I am out of luck. Meebo
satisfies my basic needs though so it's not too bad. Thanks for the help.
On 3/30/06, Brian Radwanski <brian_radwanski@symantec.com> wrote:
>
> Should be in the advanced settings on your connection. I don't have gaim
> on me as I'm in training and on a windows box today.
>
>
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>
> *From:* slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] *On Behalf Of *Keith Lelacheur
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:35 AM
>
> *To:* slug@nks.net
> *Subject:* Re: [SLUG] WiFI Ripoff
>
>
>
> Is there a how-to on how to proxy GAIM out there? I would love to be able
> to stay in touch and not resort to meebo at work. I see the proxy server
> set up on the Preferences/networking tab in GAIM, but I am not sure what to
> put in there.
>
> On 3/30/06, *Steven Buehler* <swbuehler@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/30/06, Keith Lelacheur <themercuryman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In cases where they block the IM clients, isn't something like meebo an
> > acceptable alternative?
>
> Don't even need that, just proxy the instant messenger through an HTTP
> connection. I do that with GAIM to get through the VPN at work.
>
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