On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:54:38AM +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Start the ssh tunnel locally (e.g. on port 6667), to connect to your PC at home, and redirect traffic to one of the freenode.net servers. When having done that, just start any IRC client (xchat, kopete, kvirc, gaim, irssi, konversation, ... ) and connect to 127.0.0.1:6667
No idea what you are trying to do, but if you have ssh to your machine at home, just ssh tot it with whatever you use (putty is on the CD's) and just use that. No need to do any tunneling or whatever. Some providers close ports below 1024, so you might need to set up ssh to run (as well) on a port above 1024. Also some places will filter out all ports, exept for 80 and 443, so you could use those. You could also be in a situation where you have a provider that blocks below 1024 AND a place that blocks all but 80 and 443. Then you are stuck. Even http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/ running on your home machine won't work then. Another problem might be that you are on dialup. You can use 'at' to let your home machine make a connection 1t 17:57. You can close that connection manually when the session is done. If somebody sets up cgi::irc, it would be nice. However I think it is not up to Novell or openSUSE to get around policies of the place you are. The place that has placed those policies has done so for a reason. Wether this reason is good or bad is not up to us to decide. Trying to break those policies by going around them is above and beyond the call of duty for Novell. houghi -- "I'd love to go out with you, but the man on television told me to say tuned."