RE: Passing through the IRC Clients

Thanks a lot for your response, guys.
Do you think that building a masquerading proxy like one that I attached
here will satisfy both IRC and HTTP?

-riky-

-----Original Message-----
From: alowe@hislora.com.au [mailto:alowe@hislora.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 1:36 PM
To: Riky
Cc: squid-users@ircache.net
Subject: Re: Passing through the IRC Clients

squid doesnt proxy irc... just http....

you'll need to run ip-masquerading or something similar to get irc
working... or direct access to the net...

Andrew Lowe
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On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Riky wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I've been running Squid as a web-cache in my Internet Cafe. But then come
> the problems when I want to enable the PC Clients connected to the ISP
> through Squid to be able to do chatting using mIRC.
> Though I've successfully to chat using X-Chat from Squid box, but all mIRC
> Clients are timed-out whenever they are trying to connect to some IRC
> Servers.
>
> Could it be something that I missed in my configuration (I used default
> configuration to act as a web-caching proxy)?
>
> TIA,
> -riky-
>