On Monday 17 November 2003 4:10 pm, SBlaze wrote:Say it ain't so! :-)
> All I can suggest is that you look around for an IRC proxy server,
> however I have no knowledge of such things myself.
Regards,There are such things as IRC Proxys. bnc is one of the more common ones
Antony.
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.
Just out of curiosity, what exactly is the difference between an IRC server and an IRC proxy?
Client connects to server Client connects to proxy
Server relays Proxy relays
Hmmm.
