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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]. |
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| 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
| + | 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 | + | * USERNAME: your bip username (same of your shell account) |
− | to connect to (for example, "freenode"). If you have multiple IRC networks, create | + | * PASSWORD: the password you used with bipmkpw |
− | multiple server entries in your IRC client, each one with a different value for NETWORK. | + | * 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, |
| + | each one with a different value for NETWORK. |
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| This configuration is known to work with XChat. | | This configuration is known to work with XChat. |