The Linksys "router" just does NAT and port forwarding... I think the problem
is that the linksys is trying to NAT the identd service, which is most likely
causing some problems. Try creating a manual port forwarding rule to the box
that you are irc'ing from.
Cheers,
Nitin Raja Bhatia
On June 6, 2001 07:10 pm, Jeanette Russo wrote:
> Pierre Fortin wrote:
> > Brian Hartman wrote:
> > > Hi, all.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if this is a Mandrake question, per se, but I thought I
> > > should ask anyway:
> > >
> > > I recently got my Linksys router hoooked up (thanks to all who
> > > helped!), and I can browse the net and send mail fine. But when I try
> > > to connect to a dalnet server in IRC, I can't do it, because it says I
> > > have to be runing ident (which I am, but I'm assuming that ident can't
> > > get through the router's firewall). Has anyone else dealt with this
> > > problem and know of a fix? TIA
> >
> > I've never used IRC; but if it's just a matter of getting ident thru the
> > LinkSys, go to AdvancedSetup->Forwarding and add port 113.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Pierre
> >
> > > Brian Hartman
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I am having the same problem and I tried opening 113 and still says no
> Identd. It is installed and running
> Jeanette
