On Monday 10 August 2009 13:06:48 sam.sharpe+lists.redhat@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Kevin Kempter wrote: > >Hi all; > > > >I have a scenario where I've installed a Fedora 10 (386) VM via vmware > >on a laptop running Fedora 10 (x86_64). > > > >I fire up the VM, connect the VM to a VPN connection and then connect > >to an IRC server (which is only accessable via the VPN connection). > > > > > >This works ok, however I'd really like to be able to access the IRC > >channel from my main OS (the linux x86_64 host OS) instead of having > >to switch desktops to the VM every few seconds to see if I have new > >messages in the IRC channels. However I don't want to connect the > >host OS to the VPN since I have other simultaneous network needs that > >the VPN prevents me from using. > > > >Anyone have any thoughts how I can connect IRC via a sort of > >pass-through from my host OS, thru the Fedora 10 (i386) guest VM and > >then on to the VPN accessible IRC server? > > Yes, go back to the old school IRC bouncers ;o) (finally a use for all > those years I spent idling on Undernet!) > > The one I used to use back in the day was psybnc > (http://www.psybnc.at/) - you have a permanently connected machine > (shell host) running psybnc which connects to your IRC server. You then > connect to psybnc from your less-permanently-connected machine > (desktop) as if it's an IRC server and it proxies your connection. Some > of the better IRC bouncers maintain logs when you are offline which get > replayed to you when you connect and do other groovy stuff. > > They were used back in the day to remain permanently on-channel (and > retain CHANOP permissions) even when you had a flaky dialup connection. > > In your case, replace "shell host" with VM+VPN and "desktop" with > "main OS" and you are done. > > Googling for "IRC bouncer" gets you to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNC_%28software%29 which will then get you > to > http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/Chat/IRC/Bouncers/ > > I've used psybnc,ezbounce,BNC and ZNC in my time, but there's probably > millions of variations now - I haven't seen any in the Fedora repos, > but someone else might know of one. > > > -- > Sam Thanks... I'll check it out -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
