On 07/28/2010 08:49 PM, L wrote: >>> >> Hi Your home network will be using Nat and perhaps this is not working >> correctly. You could manually set up a rule that forwards all incoming >> traffic on port 1863 to your machines internal ip address:1863 and see >> if that helps. :) >> > thanks, Yes, the adsl use NAT. This makes zero sense to me ... if pidgin connects and empathy cannot it is a problem with empathy and/or its config. And why on earth would anyone advise to open up your firewall ? That is never the correct answer ... please look elsewehere. gene -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines