#72 BNC, BitchX, or similar

[Anonymous]

My college blocks IRC access, so I was thinking maybe i
could relay through my home connection. Only problem
is that my parents will balk at the idea of leaving a
computer on 24/7 in their house, but the router is
always on and connected to DSL. Would it be possible,
given the hardware limitations (of which I honestly know
nothing about) to add a limited BNC or BitchX client so I
could use IRC directly through my router?

[roma]

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You are foretting that ssh is magic....

ssh -D 8181 user@wrt54gbox
Configure irc to use socks5 proxy thru localhost:8181

-D port
Specifies a local ``dynamic'' application-level
port forwarding. This works by allocating a socket to
listen to port on the local side, and whenever a connection
is made to this port, the connection is forwarded over the
secure channel, and the application protocol is then used to
determine where to connect to from the remote machine.
Currently the SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 protocols are supported, and
ssh will act as a SOCKS server. Only root can forward
privileged ports. Dynamic port forwardings can also be
specified in the configuration file.