mIRC and Cable Router

[Ph33zy]

I am using a 1-port netgear cable router connected to 4 port netgear hub. I can't seem to get onto dalnet on IRC anymore because of this:

Q. I use a router or LAN to connect to the internet, how do I make Ident work with it?

This depends on how your LAN is set up. If each machine on your LAN has a real IP address (visible to the internet) then all you need to do is ensure that port 113 is open on your router and each machine runs an IRC client with built in ident server. If you have only a single IP address and your router performs NAT (network address translation), you will need to designate one PC on your network to run an ident server and create a static mapping on your router to direct all traffic on port 113 to that machine. The method of doing this varies from router to router, please contact your vendor's technical support team for detailed advice

Does anyone know what this means and how i can fix this problem. THanks guys..

 

[pay]

Put yourself on DMZ mode and try redirecting port 118 to your internal IP.

 

[afropick]

Under the options for your router there is probably a section entitled port forwarding. You need to find the ip address of the machine that you are working on and forward port 113 to that ip address.

I wouldn't put myself on DMZ because that leaves you 'open' to the internet. You will no longer be using the built in firewall protection of your router.

You can probably find a more detailed explanation of how to get mIRC working at Practically Networked.

 

[Ph33zy]

thanks guys.. it worked