On Sunday 2005-November-13 10:45, Robby Workman wrote: > What I would like to do is forward the request to one of the boxes > behind the firewall (whichever one is attempting a connection with an > IRC server). I know how to forward them all to one of the individual > machines (say box 1), but this does not help if I'm using one of the > other boxes to connect. Perhaps an easier solution than a patch of the IRC helper driver to handle auth requests: run midentd on your firewall machine. http://freshmeat.net/projects/midentd/ Haven't tried it, myself. You would need to ACCEPT auth at the firewall (INPUT chain). Probably the only way around that is the aforementioned patch. -- mail to this address is discarded unless "/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: header