hi! > 2) i can only connect to irc servers that dont require ident.... (ie. > underet, but not dalnet)... any ideads? Which identd did you install? If you use NAT/MASQ your identd should be able to forward requests to the proper machine and you have to run an identd on the client machines. The client-machine's identd also has to allow the gateway-identd to ask him even if the connection goes out to the internet. Or if you don't care about your idents let the gateway-identd just return a dummy-string. best regards Sebastian -- Sebastian 'spax' Pape | Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and mailto: sebastian@xxxxxxxxxx | lost data. Guess which has occurred... pgp: http://p-a-p-e.de/pgp.asc | --- Do you want to know more? http://www.p-a-p-e.de/ ---