Using irssi as a IRC Proxy - HowFlow

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irssi.org — You don't like Irssi? You shouldn't cause it has a great feature called Irssi Proxy

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lied 9 months ago

First you have to install Irssi :) (if you compile it from source use the option—with-proxy)

Start irssi and type:

/LOAD proxy

set a password for your IRC Proxy:

/SET irssiproxy_password fooobar

Tell Irssi which Networks should be reachable through your proxy:

/SET irssiproxy_ports freenode=2779 foobar=2780

(make sure this ports are open on your firewall)

finished :)

Now you can take your favorite IRC client like Konversation and connect to the IRC server on Port 2779 for freenode

If you install irssi on a rootserver you will stay online 24/7, happy idlen ;)

Of course you can put all this options in your irssi config located: ~/.irssi/config:

proxy = {
  irssiproxy_password = "secret";
  irssiproxy_ports = "freenode=2779";
};

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