RE: irc

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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.

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