On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 at 06:49, Cedric Espinas wrote:
> i have an internet cafe and using redhat linux 6.2 as a dialup server,
> ive also installed squid proxy server, everything seems okey but users
> cant connect to irc servers is there any configuration that i miss..
> any help
There are two approaches at getting IRC working.
One is IP Masquerading (aka: NAT) where your server acts as the gateway
and forwards packets to and fro, like a firewall. For this you need IP
forwarding and IP Masquerading enabled in your kernel and sysctl (/proc).
There are HOWTOs on getting IP Masquerading working. Check out
<http://www.linuxdoc.org/> or my mirror if it's faster from your end
<http://ldp.leathercollection.ph/> (note: I'm still downloading right now
so the mirror's not yet complete).
Alternatively you can use a SOCKS5 proxy, and I prefer this approach. Why
do I prefer this approach? Because it allows ident to work with pidentd in
the server (gateway/firwall/proxy). Unfortunately I can't seem to get my
version of dante (a free SOCKS5 server) to properly return the user
identity of a connected user. Hence everyone is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (my server's true hostname). William Yu
of the Ateneo has SOCKS5 working properly, but he's not using dante. He's
using NEC's server I believe, which he said is supposed to be the same as
dante anyway.
--> Jijo
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