Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 22:42:43 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IRC - Anyone know anything about this? Message-ID: <34C91CE3.E6C088FE@tdx.co.uk>
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Hi, Can someone either answer the questions below, or point me in the right direction regards IRC? We're a small ISP in the UK - and recently all our customers have been 'booted' off other UK ISP's IRC servers (notably Demon) - Not that were saying this is _wrong_ or anything, as it's their IRC server, their bandwidth etc... My questions are: 1. Where can I get any documentation about setting up IRC on FreeBSD? - what IRC servers are popular etc.? 2. If I setup a local IRC server - this isn't going to suck all our bandwidth is it? - Am I right in thinking it will only use as much bandwidth as the clients it's supporting are using? (e.g. 4 clients in 5 channels means it will only be receiving data sent to those 4 clients in 5 channels, and not _all_ the other channels being sent? - kinda like an IRC proxy 'server' more than anything else?) I've played around with ircd, and got some 'interesting' results, which bare no comparison to the config files I thought I'd been setting up - I thought I'd better find out more info - before I go round causing 'trouble' ;-) Thanks for any help, Regards, Karl Pielorz
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