Help with Linksys DSL Router and Mirc's IdentD

[Hankysmoo]

I just got a Linksys DSL Router and am having extemely strange problems with it when connecting with Mirc. I've forwarded ports 113 and 6667 to ip 192.168.1.100 and have even tried IdentD software to no avail. I have a mini network setup at home, a p2 400 with WinMe installed, and a p3 700 dual booting win98 and win2k. My p2 400 can go on Mirc with no problems but my p3 700 will not go on it in win98 and now currently win2k. Win2k worked for about a week until I tried overclocking the system, where now I cannot go on Mirc at all, everytime it just tells me to install identd. I have read all the posts thru the forum search about Routers and identd but don't see an answer to my problem. And please don't tell me to just try Mirc servers that don't require identd, as I don't have access to any of them. Plz help, thx.

 

[Hankysmoo]

bump...need help desperatly

 

[Hankysmoo]

bump...need help desperatly

 

[rahvin]

Port forward the identd port to your machine. I *think* it is port 63.

 

[Hankysmoo]

thx man, i'll try that

 

[StanFL]

Thats odd. I've had the Linksys router since Feb, it's always run on Win2K and I've always been able to connect to MIRC without any port forwarding or tweaking.

Good luck with it.

 

[rahvin]

I was way off, identD port is 113. Do you have the identd server enabled in mirc? It's in the config dialog.

 

[Hankysmoo]

arg, rahvin, that isn't good news cuz i've forwarded 113...i was gonna try port 63 as a solution but i guess thats not gonna work anymore 🙁 any other solutions? ya...i have Identd enabled..is my dsl router just wacky, cuz I don't know what the heck is wrong with it...I have a feeling if I reformat i'll be able to get back on mirc but with only 1 OS, whichever i try to logon mirc with first (which was the case with win2k on my dual booting computer) I wouldn't really be complaining with that because I use win98 just for gaming but now even win2k doesnt work anymore...what is up with this???

 

[dszd0g]

A lot of IRC servers check for an open Wingate on your machine before allowing you to connect. I believe it checks port 1080. If it does not get an ICMP port-unreachable it generally does not allow the connection. This may or may not be your problem.

The following may be useful:

# Reject incoming SOCKS so as to log onto IRC faster.
# This will only work for those sites listed above for
# port-unreachable
/sbin/ipchains -A input -l -j REJECT -p tcp -d 0/0 1080

What exactly is the problem you are having?

 

[rahvin]

What kind of configuration changes have you done on the linksys device? I mean did you play with some config values then it stopped working? Think hard, based on the situation and that someone else using the same router isn't having problems I would say you have something configured incorrectly with the router...

If you want a good experiment, take the router out and just plug the broadband directly into your computer and see if you can connect. This will isolate the problem to either the linksys or your computer....