At the risk of getting OT, what is the point of a proxy for IRC on a gateway? I could see it as an anonymizer to bounce IRC off of, but on a gateway this would not seem to functionally any different than NAT. What am I missing? Bob -----Original Message----- From: netfilter-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:netfilter-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Antony Stone Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:18 AM To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: irc On Monday 17 November 2003 4:10 pm, SBlaze wrote: > > All I can suggest is that you look around for an IRC proxy server, > > however I have no knowledge of such things myself. > > > > Regards, > > > > Antony. > > There are such things as IRC Proxys. bnc is one of the more common ones > that I have heard of. However this won't do him any good since he is > looking for a rule to allow in IRC protocol. I'm not sure that *is* what he's looking for? Quoting from his second posting: "The 'firewall' in this case, is a transparent proxy server. The proxy server will be the gateway to the internet. I need to allow irc connections through this machine, somehow. I don't know how to do that." Therefore it seems to me that he's looking for an IRC proxy server, not a packet filtering rule. Maybe I'm just confused. Antony. -- This email was created using 100% recycled electrons. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.
