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== Configuring your IRC client ==
 
== Configuring your IRC client ==
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Our shell server [[Machine/sunjammer|sunjammer]] runs an instance of [http://bip.milkypond.org/ BIP].
    
IRC clients should be configured as follows:
 
IRC clients should be configured as follows:
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   Server password: USERNAME:PASSWORD:NETWORK
 
   Server password: USERNAME:PASSWORD:NETWORK
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The last field normally contains just your password. For BIP, you need to fill
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BIP uses the password field to encode three fields separated by a colon:
it in with 3 fields separated by colon: your bip username (same of your shell
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account), the password you used with bipmkpw and the identifier of the IRC network
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* USERNAME: your bip username (same of your shell account)
to connect to (for example, "freenode"). If you have multiple IRC networks, create
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* PASSWORD: the password you used with bipmkpw
multiple server entries in your IRC client, each one with a different value for NETWORK.
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* NETWORK: the identifier of the IRC network to connect to (for example, "freenode").
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If you have multiple IRC networks, create multiple server entries in your IRC client,
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each one with a different value for NETWORK.
    
This configuration is known to work with XChat.
 
This configuration is known to work with XChat.