From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 7 5:15:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dastor.albury.net.au (dastor.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53CF937BB3B for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 05:15:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicks@dastor.albury.net.au) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by dastor.albury.net.au (8.10.2/8.10.2) id e67CFJD58233; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 22:15:19 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 22:15:19 +1000 From: Nick Slager To: James Johnson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NATD and ident Message-ID: <20000707221519.B57699@albury.net.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from bonk1138@msn.com on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 03:36:08AM -0700 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake James Johnson (bonk1138@msn.com): > The problem I've run into before doing this is attempting to run IRC clients > from behind the machine running NAT, they cannto respond to the IRC servers > Ident request... Has anyone developed a workaround for this? Install an ident daemon :-) There are at least two listed in the ports collection: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=identd&stype=all Regards, Nick. -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message