On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:10:21AM +0800, smart penguin wrote: > > Can anybody help a newbie here, i need to configure a socks 5 server > > so i can use mirc from my workstation, can anyhelp me, (step-by-step) > > on how to this. > > Why don't you dump mIRC in favor of X-Chat[1], which works really well > on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux and supports going through > an HTTP proxy? You can then set up a Squid proxy server and go through > it as long as it supports CONNECT for port 6667, which should be enabled > in the default setup anyway. > > Credits for my finding out about "IRC over Squid" go to Eric Pareja, > BTW. ;) >
Software like this makes it hard for firewall maintainers vainly trying to block such applications.. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
