[X2serv-cvs] CVS: x2/doc ircd.txt,NONE,1.1

[Alex S. <ru...@us...>]

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	ircd.txt 
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Added a note about ircd compatability


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This is an ircd compatability note about x2 5.1
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X2 is designed to work with the universal ircd
Universal ircd (known as ircu) is available from 
sourceforge at http://ircu.sourceforge.net .

It is important to note that while universal ircd
forked from undernet's ircd at 2.10.07, X2 IS NOT
COMPATABLE WITH THE CURRENT UNDERNET IRCD.  Some-
where along, undernet's ircd stoped using the P10
protocol (as defined by its creator, run) and 
started using a protocol with more address space
which they continue to call P10. It isnt.

90% of the questions I get regarding X2 are from
people who are trying to link X2 to misc. irc servers
which are not universal ircd. The answer is it 
does not work. They communicate differently. Its
like an English speaker trying to communicate with
a Spanish speaker. While some parts of the languages
are somewhat similar, generally they cannot understand
eachother.

Of course, theres nothing stopping someone who'se good
with c from adding support for alternate ircd's and in
fact this is encouraged. The modularity of x2 should
allow you to re-code parse.c and send.c and make them
compatable with anything.  As it stands though, noone
has done that work.

X2 5.0.3 uses the "P09" protocol, which is compatable with 
undernet 2.10.06 and lower (if P9 compatability is enabled
and if the p9 compatable server is listed with a numeric
in the source of EVERY CONNECTED SERVER).

Additionally 5.0.3 supports older P09 servers such as undernet 2.9.x 
and variants.

Finally, X2 5.0.3 also has most support for the Hybrid TS-4 ircd
which is rather rare. It may or may not be compatable with
other Hybrid ircds.

If you are trying to use X2 with recent Undernet ircd's, 
I suggest you instead convert your network to universal ircd
not only because it works with X2, but also because it
is usually better for smaller networks:

run was a major developer for the undernet ircd for many years
until just recently, when undernet and he had a falling apart.

Since the undernet ircd Up untill version 2.10.07 was mostly
the product of run's efforts, he continued to develop it
as universal ircd, and it is still updated and maintained today,
and used by many smaller networks.  The config is setup such that
spesific networks can have settings in the make config spesifically
for them, while maintaining standards between networks. The
gloal is to make sure there is still a "standard" ircd, since
undernet will be more and more modifying theirs. If your network
wants to modify ircd, using universal means your changes can be
put into the "official" version, and kept though version updates
without the chore of re-applying all your changes.