-> I'm sitting behind a firewall and want to use IRC. The firewall does -> masquerading and is also limiting incoming and outgoing traffic. I thought -> the problem may be identd which can not access my machine behind the firewall. -> But iptraf shows also that my connection is not answered (the S bit is -> displayed).
which server in which network do you try to use? what timeout do you have set up? some irc servers also check for socks servers on your IP, firewalls usually drop packets so you have to wait long time until connection attempt times out and server lets you in. -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NEXTRA, Slovakia; IRCNET admin of *.sk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ ; http://www.nextra.sk/ Save the whales. Collect the whole set. --- Odchozí zpráva obsahuje viry. Zkontrolováno antivirovým systémem AVG (http://www.grisoft.cz). Verze: 6.0.217 / Virová báze: 102 - datum vydání: 1/12/2000