Ichat file transfer fails

Hi,
My ichat file transfers fails at first attempt then again it works fine for my second attempt.
And i have a perfect network with working dns and PTR records.
Please help.
Thanks,
Gulab Pasha

Think this has been discussed extensively [here |http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2427533&tstart=50]

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I am trying to get ichat to allow file transfers/video chatting on my Mac, I have a feeling that the setup through the routers that we have are not allowing it to function as it is constantly giving me errors. My set up is a Cable Modem hooked into a Netgear WGR614 v6 and then an ethernet wire running from that router to a Linksys WRT54G v8. I have the WRT54G set up with the following settings:
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SO, this brings me to my issue, I am trying to get ichat file transfer/video to work, I have followed the instructions for setting up portforwarding from portforward.com for ichat on both the netgear and the linksys. On the linksys, i set the IP address to forward to as my computers (.233)
On the netgear, i set the ip address to forward to as 192.168.1.136 (the static IP of the linksys).
Anyway, I am hoping someone can point out what I am doing wrong as I am still getting this error: An AIM error has occurred. Unable to talk directly to your buddy. I am also getting this error: An AIM service error occurred. The server message was: Serv:RequestTimeout.
My OS X firewall is off.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP IN ADVANCE!!

Hi,
I am not sure I have understood your Networking here.
You say the Netgear is getting an IP (Via DHCP) from the ISP.
You go onto say it is at 192.168.1.1
It issues IP addresses from 192.168.1.2 through 192.168.1.51 and the Linksys has an IP outside this range at 192.168.1.136
Your computer is at 192.168.1.233
As both devices are using the 192.168.1.xxx group and doing DHCP (even with restricted groups) how does the computer know which one to connect to ?
You should be able to change the group that each device is using for it's own network (I would suggest the Netgear)
You should also turn Off DHCP (to the LAN) in the Netgear so it's own network (subnet) only goes as far as the Linksys.
Similarly in the Linksys make sure DHCP is Off or change the Mac to use Manually (Static) with DHCP.
Both devices can do UPnP found in the Administration tab in the Linksys and the WAN page of the Netgear.
Turn Off/disable all Port Forwarding in both devices.
It may also pay to copy across the Linksys and Computer the DNS server IPs from the Netgear.
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Enable these:
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IChat File Transfer port issue (can't listen to port 5190 and 7777)

Greentings ladies and gentlemen,
I need help opening port 5190 and 7777 for ichat server file transfers. As for now, my situation can be described as below:
(1)I have a ichat server in a mac mini(2010, newest model as for today) running a fully updated version of MACOSX SERVER 10.6 inside a lab in my university.
(2)As for the ichat server itself, text, voice, video between 2 or more persons are all working great. As for clients the latest version of ichat and pidgin(text only) are being used. The only problem is the lack of file transfer between ichat clients.
(3)The server is behind a router (YAMAHA RTX 1200). I am 100% sure that the router is correctly configured to allow packets in and out of the port 5190 and 7777, among the other necessary ports. All the other ports are open and working correctly. I also manually disabled the firewall of a windows7 laptop and tested packet transfers on both ports and both worked fine.
(4)As I said before, the server is inside my university lab. I made sure that all ports between 1023~65535 are open in the univesity gateway/backbone network.
Bellow are firewall(IPFW) settings before flushing (tried configuring using both GUI and CUI, and both returned the same results)
sudo ipfw l
Password:
00001 allow udp from any 626 to any dst-port 626
01000 allow ip from any to any via lo0
01010 allow udp from any to any dst-port 5190
01030 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 5190
12300 allow tcp from any to any established
12301 allow tcp from any to any out
12302 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 22
12302 allow udp from any to any dst-port 22
12303 allow udp from any to any out keep-state
12304 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 53 out keep-state
12304 allow udp from any to any dst-port 53 out keep-state
12305 allow udp from any to any in frag
12306 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 311
12307 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 625
12308 allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 8
12309 allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 0
12310 allow igmp from any to any
12311 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 5190
12311 allow udp from any to any dst-port 5190
12312 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 5222
12313 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 5223
12314 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 5269
12315 allow udp from any to any dst-port 5297,5678
12316 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 5298
12316 allow udp from any to any dst-port 5298
12317 allow udp from any to any dst-port 16384-16403
12318 allow udp from any to any dst-port 5060
12319 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 7777
12320 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 8008
12321 allow tcp from any to any dst-port 8443
65535 allow ip from any to any
And after flushing
sudo ipfw l
Password:
65535 allow ip from any to any
In either case ports that are being listened are listed below.
netstat -na | grep LIST
tcp46 0 0 *.5269 . LISTEN
tcp46 0 0 *.5223 . LISTEN
tcp46 0 0 *.5222 . LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.5347 . LISTEN
tcp46 0 0 *.5900 . LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 *.88 . LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 *.88 . LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 *.311 . LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 192.168.2.96.53 . LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 *.3659 . LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 *.106 . LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 *.3659 . LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 *.106 . LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.54 . LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.53 . LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 *.749 . LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 *.389 . LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 *.389 . LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 *.22 . LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 *.22 . LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 *.548 . LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 *.548 . LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 *.625 . LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.631 . LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 ::1.631 . LISTEN
As you can see my firewall settings are not being reflected on the actual server firewall.
Is there any way I could just force the server into listening the port?
If necessary I can post screenshots of every ichat server/firewall configuration tab from the Server Admin GUI.
Thanks in advance for any help/support.

First off, realize there is no association between your firewall rules and netstat.
Just because your firewall is letting traffic in that does not mean it will appear in your netstat.
netstat -a will show you a list of ports that are in use - i.e. there is some process listening to (or writing to) that port. That is independent of whether the firewall permits the traffic (e.g. the firewall could well allow traffic in on 5190, but unless there's a process listening to 5190 you won't see it in the netstat).
Secondly, IIRC iChat file transfers are client-to-client therefore it might not be your server, or your server's firewall or your server's network that's the issue - the client will need to have a firewall configured to allow incoming traffic from other iChat clients.
Does that help shed some light on things? (it isn't clear whether your post is referring to the server or the client side of things).

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It could be in the naming convention used
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