Re: ntalk and talk

From: Hrvoje Spoljar (fcbyr_at_k.cos.ue)
Date: 04/26/05


Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:04:05 +0000 (UTC)

psychoabe@gmail.com <psychoabe@gmail.com> pise na comp.os.linux:
> I have two computers networked on my home using linux. Both are
> configured to use ntalk and can see each other and we can talk to each
> other.
>
> The question I have is can this be done to computers outside of our
> network provided we have thier ip address?
>
> Or is this done soley on computes within our network. I have some
> other friends that just installed linux and I wanted to know if it
> would work. They have not enabled ntalk on thier machines because they
> are only running one machine each, so they didn't see a need for it.

it would work if 517 and 518 UDP traffic is allowed all the way from one
host to another.

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