Re: IRC / VM question

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On Monday 10 August 2009 13:06:48 sam.sharpe+lists.redhat@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Kevin Kempter wrote:
> >Hi all;
> >
> >I have a scenario where I've installed a Fedora 10 (386) VM via vmware
> >on a laptop running Fedora 10 (x86_64).
> >
> >I fire up the VM, connect the VM to a VPN connection and then connect
> >to an IRC server (which is only accessable via the VPN connection).
> >
> >
> >This works ok, however I'd really like to be able to access the IRC
> >channel from my main OS (the linux x86_64 host OS) instead of having
> >to switch desktops to the VM every few seconds to see if I have new
> >messages in the IRC channels.  However I don't want to connect the
> >host OS to the VPN since I have other simultaneous network needs that
> >the VPN prevents me from using.
> >
> >Anyone have any thoughts how I can connect IRC via a sort of
> >pass-through from my host OS, thru the Fedora 10 (i386) guest VM and
> >then on to the VPN accessible IRC server?
>
> Yes, go back to the old school IRC bouncers ;o) (finally a use for all
> those years I spent idling on Undernet!)
>
> The one I used to use back in the day was psybnc
> (http://www.psybnc.at/) - you have a permanently connected machine
> (shell host) running psybnc which connects to your IRC server. You then
> connect to psybnc from your less-permanently-connected machine
> (desktop) as if it's an IRC server and it proxies your connection. Some
> of the better IRC bouncers maintain logs when you are offline which get
> replayed to you when you connect and do other groovy stuff.
>
> They were used back in the day to remain permanently on-channel (and
> retain CHANOP permissions) even when you had a flaky dialup connection.
>
> In your case, replace "shell host" with VM+VPN and "desktop" with
> "main OS" and you are done.
>
> Googling for "IRC bouncer" gets you to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNC_%28software%29 which will then get you
> to
> http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/Chat/IRC/Bouncers/
>
> I've used psybnc,ezbounce,BNC and ZNC in my time, but there's probably
> millions of variations now - I haven't seen any in the Fedora repos,
> but someone else might know of one.
>
>
> --
> Sam


Thanks... I'll check it out

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